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2026-03-17 09:06 #

An ode to bzip: A review of current highly performant compression algorithms.

2026-03-17 09:04 #

The usual suspects are the GIL, interpretation, and dynamic typing. All three matter, but none of them is the real story. The real story is that Python is designed to be maximally dynamic – you can monkey-patch methods at runtime, replace builtins, change a class’s inheritance chain while instances exist – and that design makes it fundamentally hard to optimize. The Optimization Ladder

2026-03-17 08:58 #

img Trois pâquerettes à 4h30 du matin

2026-03-14 11:10 #

More music to come…

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2026-03-14 11:10 #

/me is listening to “The Beast In You” by Ultra Sunn

2026-03-13 19:54 #

img New batch of fresh music.

2026-03-13 10:55 #

Unbeatable performance!

» uv tool install --python 3.13 osxphotos
Resolved 79 packages in 1.15s
      Built bitmath==1.3.3.1
Prepared 79 packages in 421ms
Installed 79 packages in 182ms
2026-03-10 20:41 #

img Welcome back home.