1/31/2014

1-31-14 - Understanding ANS - 2

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So last time I wrote about how a string of output symbols like "012" describes an ANS state machine. That particular string has...
1/30/2014

1-30-14 - Understanding ANS - 1

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I'm trying to really understand Jarek Duda's ANS (Asymmetric Numeral System). I'm going to write a bit as I figure things out. ...
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12/31/2013

12-31-13 - Statically Linked DLL

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Oodle for Windows is shipped as a DLL. I have to do this because the multiplicity of incompatible CRT libs on Windows has made shipping l...
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11/25/2013

11-25-13 - Oodle and the real problems in games

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When I started work on Oodle, I specifically didn't want to do a compression library. For one thing, I had done a lot of compression an...
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11/14/2013

11-14-13 - Oodle Packet Compression for UDP

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Oodle now has compressors for UDP (unordered / stateless) packets. Some previous posts on this topic : cbloom rants 05-20-13 - Thoughts o...
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10/09/2013

10-09-13 - Urgh ; Threads and Memory

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This is a problem I've been trying to avoid really facing, so I keep hacking around it, but it keeps coming back to bite me every few mo...
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10/03/2013

10-03-13 - SetLastError(0)

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Public reminder to myself about something I discovered a while ago. If you want to do IO really robustly in Windows, you can't just a...
9/18/2013

09-18-13 - Per-Thread Global State Overrides

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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...
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09-18-13 - Fast TLS on Windows

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For the record; don't use this blah blah unsafe unnecessary blah blah. extern "C" DWORD __cdecl FastTlsGetValue_x86(int i...
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8/28/2013

08-28-13 - How to Crunch

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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...
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