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Notes on compression, embedded systems, and squeezing performance out of real hardware.

• June 2026

  SIMD base64, hiding behind libb64's old API

  A modernized fork of libb64: ~20× faster with SIMD (SSE4.1/AVX2/NEON, now on MSVC too), a 3–5× faster portable scalar fallback, a customer-provided allocator, and a one-byte overflow fix — all behind the unchanged public API.

• June 2026

  xsd-tools: marshalling code in five languages from one XSD

  One XSD schema in, idiomatic marshalling code out — ten round-trip-tested targets across C, C++, Python, Java, and TypeScript, with facet validation and type narrowing built into the generated code.

• June 2026

  A faster, deterministic, maintained fork of Zopfli

  Google archived Zopfli in October 2025. Here's a drop-in fork that's 1.9–3.5× faster, uses 34–38% less memory, and produces bit-identical output across every CPU and compiler.