Monday, June 27, 2016

Running COBOL on Arduino using the Meson Build System

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IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM ID. COBOL-ARDUINO. DATA DIVISION. In my previous post we found out how to compile projects for the Ar...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Meson build system now has Arduino support

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After some midsummer hacking Meson now has support for building and uploading Arduino projects. (caveat: this MR  needs to land to master fi...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Performance testing a new parallel zip file implementation

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Previously we looked into rewriting a zip file unpacker rather than modernising an existing one as well as measuring its performance . Now ...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Jzip parallel unzipper performance results

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In my previous blog post I wrote about reimplementing Info-Zip in modern C++ so that we can unpack files in parallel. This sparked a lively...
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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Rewriting from scratch, should you do it?

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One thing that has bothered me for a while is that the unzip command line tool only decompresses one file at a time. As a weekend project I ...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

A look into Linux software deployment

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One of the great virtues of Linux distributions is that they create an easy way to install massive amounts of software. They provide an easy...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Testing performance of build optimisations

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This blog post examines the performance effect of various compiler options. The actual test consists of compressing a 270 megabyte unpacked ...