Fast conversion of floating-point values to string

The conversion to string could be 15 times faster than sprintf. Read more...

Base64 encoding — implementation study

Although base64 encoding is a very basic algorithm, it could be sped up a little (25% sounds good?) Read more...

Benefits from the obsession

Everything has started few years ago when I found John Regher's blog. If you don't know the blog I highly recommend it. Among other things (I like the photos!) the author studies bugs in compilers, undefined behaviours and similar things. The word "overflow" appears quite often in his posts due to the great number of errors related to improper use of the integer arithmetic. Well, I don't know when the obsession has exactly started, but recently I realized that I am alert of all integer operations in my programs. Read more...