Monday, May 19, 2025

Optimizing page splits in books

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Earlier in this blog we looked at how to generate a justified block of text, which is nowadays usually done with the Knuth-Plass algorithm ...
Saturday, May 3, 2025

Writing your own C++ standard library part 2

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This blog post talked about the "self written C++ standard library" I wrote for the fun of it ( code here ). The post got linked ...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Writing your own C++ standard library from scratch

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The C++ standard library (also know as the STL) is, without a doubt, an astounding piece of work. Its scope, performance and incredible back...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

The price of statelessness is eternal waiting

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Most CI systems I have seen have been stateless. That is, they start by getting a fresh Docker container (or building one from scratch), doi...
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Monday, February 10, 2025

C++ compiler daemon testing tool

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In an earlier blog post I wrote about a potential way of speeding up C++ compilations (or any language that has a big up-front cost). The b...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

The trials and tribulations of supporting CJK text in PDF

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In the past I may have spoken critically on Truetype fonts and their usage in PDF files. Recently I have come to the conclusion that it may ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Measuring code size and performance

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Are exceptions faster and/or bloatier than using error codes? Well... The traditional wisdom is that exceptions are faster when not taken, s...