Superoptimizing an FPU Emulator(purplesyringa.moe)

39 points by dverlaeckt80 10 days ago | 6 comments

Blog post on using superoptimization to find an optimal instruction sequence for a floating-point emulator function returning a float's lowest set bit.

Programming Used to Be Free(purplesyringa.moe)

37 points by yeputons 6 months ago | 37 comments

WASM is not quite a stack machine(purplesyringa.moe)

142 points by signa11 6 months ago | 43 comments

Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if(purplesyringa.moe)

76 points by birdculture 3 months ago | 11 comments

An ode to bzip(purplesyringa.moe)

158 points by signa11 7 months ago | 82 comments

Bringing Faster Exceptions to Rust(purplesyringa.moe)

84 points by stpn 1 year ago | 24 comments