cbloom rants

I wrote about this before ( cbloom rants 11-23-12 - Global State Considered Harmful ) but I'm doing it again because I think almost no...

For the record; don't use this blah blah unsafe unnecessary blah blah. extern "C" DWORD __cdecl FastTlsGetValue_x86(int i...

Baby is like the worst crunch ever. Anyway it's got me thinking about things I've learned about how to cope with crunch. 1. Ther...

I don't usually like to write about algorithms that I haven't actually implemented yet, but it seems in my old age that I will not a...

Simple way to do small-packet network packet compression. Train N different huffman code sets. Encoder and decoder must have a copy of t...

This is a report on a dead end, which I wish people would do more often. Ever since I read about Cuckoo Hashing I thought, hmm even if it...

Followup to my post 05-20-13 - Thoughts on Data Compression for MMOs : So I've tried a few things, and Oodle is now shipping with ...

Reminder to myself, because I've gotten out of the habit. In the months before baby I had developed a pretty good work pattern and I wa...

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...