cbloom rants

Perceptual Metrics, imdiff, and such. Don't think I ever did an "index post" so here it is : 01-18-11 - Hadamard 01-17...

As promised last time , a bit of rambling on the future. 1. R-D optimized DXTC. Sticking with DXT encoding, this is certainly the righ...

1. If your TEMP env var is set to anything other than "C:\Users\you\AppData\Local\Temp" , some stupid apps (eg. windows Installer)...

I've been sent this GDC talk a few times now, so I will write some notes about it. (BTW thanks to all who sent it; I don't really...

It's always hard to compare compressors fairly in a way that's easily understood by the layman. I think the basic LZH compressors i...

I wrote a year ago ( 03-11-11 | Worklets , IO , and Coroutines ) about coroutines for doing tasks with external delays. (a year ago! wtf) ...

Let's say you have a pool of worker threads, and some of them may be asleep. How should you wake them up? The straightforward way is...

The other big advantage of a unified handle system is that you can do things like a true WFMO (wait for multiple objects). Often you have...

A few months ago I created a new core structure for Oodle which has worked out really well and tied the whole concept together. I'm goi...

I just noticed that Stranger's Wrath HD for PS3 (on PSN) finally came out a few months ago. So I bought it and started playing through....