Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 3

(gautiersblog.blogspot.com)

96 points | by etrez 3 days ago ago

10 comments

  • whartung 2 days ago ago

    I groused about this before, when part 1 rolled out, and I looked at part 2, and now 3.

    But, still, these are treatises on the BZip2 algorithm. These posts have pretty much nothing to do with Ada.

    No "how would one approach this with Ada", "here's the naive simple Ada", "here's how I made it faster with more clever Ada", "see, Ada, can write fast code too".

    Anything like that, but there's nothing there.

    There's links to code, but I just felt that with the title, that this would be about Ada implementing BZip2, not about BZip2 and, "oh, here's some source that just happens to be Ada".

  • ohyoutravel 2 days ago ago

    What is up with the absolutely terrible and obtrusive ads on this page? They take up 80% of my phone screen space, then I tried to scroll down and they pop up again. Awful, I can’t even read this post (and it sounded interesting). Yuck.

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      Not sure what's happening but I don't see a single ad and I don't have an ad blocker.

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  • Dwedit 2 days ago ago

    BZip3 is a thing now.

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