10/26/2012

10-26-12 - Oodle Rewrite Thoughts

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I'm getting increasingly annoyed with the C-style Oodle threading code. It's just such a nightmare to manually manage things like o...
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10/22/2012

10-22-12 - Windows 7 Start Menu Input Race

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I've been super annoyed by some inconsistent behavior in the Windows 7 start menu for a while now. Sometimes I hit "Start - program...
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10-22-12 - LZ-Bytewise conclusions

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Wrapping this up + index post. Previous posts in the series : cbloom rants 09-02-12 - Encoding Values in Bytes Part 1 cbloom rants 0...
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10/16/2012

10-16-12 - Two more small notes on LZNib

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Followup to Small Notes on LZNib 1. Because cost ties are common, and ties are not actually ties (due to "last offset"), just...

10-16-12 - Thoughts on Bit-Packing Structs Before Compression

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If you're trying to transmit some data compactly, and you are *not* using any back-end compression, then it's relatively straightfor...
10/07/2012

10-07-12 - Small Notes on LZNib

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Some little thoughts. 1. It's kind of amazing to me how well LZNib does. (currently 30,986,634 on enwik8 with parallel chunked compr...
10/05/2012

10-05-12 - OodleLZ Encoder Speed Variation with Worker Count

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Thought I would look into this. One thing I've been wondering is whether putting workers on the hyper-threads helps or not. Measured...
10/04/2012

10-04-12 - Hash-Link match finder tricks

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Some notes on the standard old Hash->Links match finder for LZ. (See previous posts on StringMatchTest Hash1b and Amortized Hashing o...
10/02/2012

10-02-12 - Small note on LZHAM

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When I did my comparison of various compressors a little while ago, I also tested LZHAM, but I didn't include it in the charts because...
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10-02-12 - Small note on Buffered IO Timing

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On Windows, Oodle by default uses OS buffering for reads and does not use OS buffering for writes. I believe this is the right way to go 99...
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