PyPy, an alternative runtime for Python, uses a specially created JIT compiler to yield potentially massive speedups over CPython, the conventional Python runtime. But PyPy’s exemplary performance has ...

What was considered best practice yesterday does not hold true today and this is especially relevant when it comes to XML sitemaps, which are almost as old as SEO itself. The problem is, it’s ...

The current state of ‘ill-defined encoding’ creates unnecessary problems when working with the JDK codebase, an OpenJDK proposal says. Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel video encoding algorithm called Block Importance Mapping. In this method, blocks are assigned a quantization parameter, QP, offset based on how likely the block ...

Note Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server uses the GetACP function to determine the encoding of the DBTYPE_STR input buffer. Scenarios in which GetACP returns a UTF-8 encoding (enabled with the "Use ...

This project provides a Python string codec for MySQL's latin1 encoding, and an accompanying iconv-like command line script for use in shell pipes. You can use this project in two ways: as a ...