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Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if
So I was optimizing a domain-specific compressor the other day, as one does. One important problem was chunking the input string and optimally choosing the most compact encoding for each chunk (different encodings compress different characters better, so where to split is not immediately obvious). The previous post…
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| Jul 13, 2026 | Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if by birdculture | 112 | 29 |
