Nibble Stew

A gathering of development thoughts of Jussi Pakkanen. Some of you may know him as the creator of the Meson build system. jpakkane at gmail dot com

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Measuring code size and performance

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

Monday, December 23, 2024

CapyPDF 0.14 is out

I have just released version 0.14 of CapyPDF . This release has a ton of new functionality. So much, in fact, that I don't even remember...

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Meson build definitions merged into Git's git repo

The developers of Git have been considering switchibg build systems for a while. No definitive decision have been made as of yet, but they g...

Friday, December 13, 2024

CMYK me baby one more time!

Did you know that Jpeg supports images in the CMYK colorspace? And that people are actually using them in the wild? This being the case I ne...

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Compiler daemon thought experiment

According to information I have picked up somewhere (but can't properly confirm via web searches ATM) there was a compiler in the 90s (...

Friday, November 8, 2024

PDF/AAAARGH

Note: the PDF/A specification is not freely available so everything here is based on reverse engineering. It might be complete bunk. There ...

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Happenings at work

A few months ago this happened. Which, for those of you not up to date on your 1960s British television, is to say that I've resigned. I...

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