cbloom rants

I've been thinking about this a bit and thought I'd scribble some ideas publicly. (MMO = not necessarily just MMOs but any central g...

It's very easy (almost trivial (*)) to make the table-based {index/guid} style of weak reference lock free. (* = obviously not trivia...

I've seen a lot of lockfree libraries out there that are total crap. Really weird non-standard ways of doing things, or overly huge and...

One of the very simplest forms of packing values in bits is simply to store a value with non-power-of-2 range and all values of equal probab...

There's a lot of these guides around the net, but I found them all a bit confusing to follow, so my experience : 1. Power off the VM....

I've been redoing my low level waitset and want to make some notes. Some previous discussion of the same issues here : cbloom rants ...

I made a fresh build of "tabdir" my old ( old ) utility that does a recursive dirlisting in tabbed-text format for "tabvie...

I've had this small annoying issue for a while, and finally thought of a pretty simple solution. You may recall, I use a worker thr...

I put some stupid filters in, so here are some results for the record and my reference. BC1 (DXT1/S3TC) DDS textures : All compress...

Quick and dirty game-programming style hacky way to make fitting model parameters somewhat better. You have some testset {T} of many item...