Vectorized Quicksort keeps the familiar pivot-and-partition strategy but feeds many values through CPU vector lanes at once. This article explains SIMD partitioning, compress-store operations, sorting networks, Highway portability, and the trade-offs behind the speedup.
Coding assistants can produce useful code in seconds, but speed is not the only reason to program. A small C++ game loop shows how manual work can restore curiosity, learning, and a sense of ownership.
libexpat (Expat) is a stream-oriented C XML parser used broadly in open source. After a “security vacation” ended on 2026-08-01, funded maintenance aims to fix unfixed security issues and improve standards support like XML 1.0r5.
Shitty is a terminal emulator built for low latency and high throughput, keeping terminal state on the CPU while rendering cells with GPU compute backends (Vulkan/Metal). It also warns that it’s memory-unsafe, making testing and sanitizer-based verification central to its design.