t_fischer: (pleased)
2013-11-10 05:26 pm
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Unity Build in KBibTeX

Inspired by a blog posting on Improving build times of large Qt apps found through Planet KDE, I tried to apply the concept of unity builds to KBibTeX. The idea with a unity build is instead of compiling a set of source code files individually into objects before linking them to merge them into one big source file and only compile this file. This approach promises time and I/O savings for C++, as repetitive reads on included headers can be skipped. Some issues such as name clashes can occur in unity builds, though.

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t_fischer: (cat face)
2013-01-27 01:37 pm
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Photo Mosaics

Big Buck Bunny photo mosaic

Recently, a colleague of mine moved to a new office and he used the chance to put some posters on his wall. One was a photo mosaic he made back when the first of the new Star Wars movies (the one with Qui-Gon Jinn) came out. Based on a few hundred scaled-down images, those images where chosen and arranged in a grid to for a larger image from the same movie. Large image could be identified from a distance, but if you would step closer, you could clearly see each small image.

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