cbloom rants

JPEG2 proposal / rough principles : 1. Simple simple simple. The decoder should be implementable in ~5000 lines as a single file stb.h ...

I had a report from a customer of poor Kraken decode performance on PS4 when using 10 simultaneous threads for decoding, and it occurred to...

I get a lot of customers that want to cut their data into small blocks for paging, who ask "what's the benefit of using larger blo...

I've been fooling around with strtod for a few days for no good reason. It's been quite interesting. Some little notes : str...

Tips for using Oodle as efficiently and robustly as possible. (wrst your game runtime loading + decoding only). 1. Use the new compress...

02-01-17 | Oodle Hydra Oodle Hydra - the many headed beast. Hydra is a meta-compressor which selects Kraken, Mermaid, or Selkie per b...

I thought this might be an interesting simple survey topic to illustrate an introduction to data compression. Assume that we are writing...

EDIT : See newer post : Oodle 2.7.3 on the Nintendo Switch Original post follows : Oodle is coming soon (in 2.4.2) to the Nintendo ...

If you need to send PNG images in a compressed archive, here's a tip. PNG's are internally compressed with Zlib. When you run a...

I tweaked my scatter plot generation per Fabian. They're still log-log but now labeled with the non-log axis values so it's easier...