Performance
Measuring and improving the speed of code, mostly JavaScript.
Customising AI output by owning the denoising steps
Replacing, extending and holding images and video together by running every denoising step yourself.
20 October 2026Some JavaScript performance comparisons
In JavaScript there are often many ways to achieve the same common things
14 March 2025Fast log counters in PHP
Counting things and timing things in a busy PHP application, with atomic counters in shared memory so the database gets one write a minute instead of one per request.
20 January 2025How Modal works
Python that describes its own deployment, and warm containers against cold starts.
16 October 2024Comparison of JavaScript binary data objects
There are a set of objects for dealing with binary data in JavaScript, which are slightly different on NodeJS and in the browser.
15 March 2023FastArray (draft)
A fast array is a trie-like data structure that allows for fast insertion and removal of elements at any index. It is useful for cases where you need to insert and remove elements at arbitrary indices in an array-like data structure.
15 March 2023Simple speedups
If you have a Web application there are likely countless ways you can speed it up, some with significant performance gains, and some adding up to significant gains if you apply enough of them.
16 March 2018The Google V8 engine
Google have been working hard to make JavaScript fast.
6 April 2010Fixed point maths in x86 assembly
Fractional maths with whole-number instructions, for fast 3D graphics on the PC.
27 November 1997