purplesyringa's blog

Fenwick layout for interval trees

If I hear "design pattern" one more time, I'll go mad

"AI discourse" is a joke

Hidden complexity in software development

Splitting independent variables without SSA

Fast limited-range conversion between ints and floats

Recovering control flow structures without CFGs

Why performance optimization is hard work

Falsehoods programmers believe about null pointers

The RAM myth

Thoughts on Rust hashing

Any Python program fits in 24 characters*

The Rust Trademark Policy is still harmful

Bringing faster exceptions to Rust

We built the best "Bad Apple!!" in Minecraft

Minecraft сравнивает массивы за куб

WebP: The WebPage compression format

Division is hard, but it doesn't have to be

I sped up serde_json strings by 20%

The sentinel trick

You might want to use panics for error handling

У base64 есть неподвижная точка

I thought I was smart enough to play with fire

Recovering garbled Bitcoin addresses