Stories by luu

Sedsed: debug, indent, tokenize and HTMLize your sed scripts.

Implementing a Thread Library on Linux (2003)

Optimising Haskell for a tight inner loop

50000 electricity, please

Cleaning up C++ Headers with g++ Link-Time Optimization

GNU grep is 10x faster than Mac grep

Quietnet: Chat client that works over near-ultrasonic sound

Greatest: C unit testing library in one file

Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote

SimpleHTTPServer considered harmful

Mac OS 10.9 Browser Benchmarks

Lua's multiple arguments and the "select" function

.NET Memory Shrinker

Tiny Computer for FPGA

Data Journalism Reading List

Coingen

Netflix’s dumbed-down algorithms

Dynamic Class Creation in Python

The state of distributed bug trackers

How misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache misses