Friday, June 26, 2026

Pystd standard library, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time

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I submitted talk proposals about Pystd, the from-scratch written standard library for C++ (custom design, not a implementation of the ISO sp...
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Monday, June 15, 2026

Beware of Star Trek managers, especially when bearing MBAs

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Almost exactly three years ago the Oceangate submarine implosion happened . The disaster came about when a billionaire called Stockton Rush ...
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Monday, June 8, 2026

Faking keyword arguments to functions in C++

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One of the many nice language features in Python are keyword arguments. They make some types of APIs  concise and readable. Like so: Unfortu...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

CapyPDF is approaching feature sufficiency

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In the past I have written many blog posts on implementing various PDF features in CapyPDF . Typically they explain the feature being implem...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Multi merge sort, or when optimizations aren't

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In our previous episode we wrote a merge sort implementation that runs a bit faster than the one in stdlibc++. The question then becomes, c...
Monday, April 6, 2026

Sorting performance rabbit hole

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In an earlier blog post we found out that Pystd's simple sorting algorithm implementations were 5-10% slower than their stdlibc++ count...
Monday, March 23, 2026

Everything old is new again: memory optimization

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At this point in history, AI sociopaths have purchased all the world's RAM in order to run their copyright infringement factories at ful...