Monthly Archives: March 2008

Running Time

31st
Mar. × ’08
By Mihai Preda

Yesterday I ran the Warsaw Half-Marathon (21km) with time 2:00:58 (two hours and one minute). It was a very nice event, the weather was great (in fact I’ve got a bit sun-burnt during the run) and the running was not painful, quite the opposite. I improved my time from last year’s half-marathon with about 9 [...]

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The Modem is in Vogue, Again

30th
Mar. × ’08
By Mihai Preda

I am a big fun of having the web’s huge and rich information available on mobile phones — it is really useful for the user to be able to browse the web with the mobile phone’s browser.
Some time ago I was wondering how this ‘mobile browsing’ experience can be improved, and at that point I [...]

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Arity Performance on Mobile Phone vs. Desktop Computer

27th
Mar. × ’08
By Mihai Preda

I’m so happy I’m blogging again!
So, everybody knows already that I am the author of the Arity Arithmetic Engine, a nice little open-source library for evaluating arithmetic expressions. In this library I put quite some attention on the elegant and minimal code, and on performance. The functionality is mainly split in two parts: compiling [...]

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