We investigate how memory consumption, dataset size and software performance correlate…
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The quest for the fastest linked list
Linked lists are celebrity data structures of software development. They are celebrities because every engineer has had something to do with them in one part of their career. They are used in many places: from low-level memory management in operating systems up to data wrangling and data filtering in machine learning. They promise a lot:…
2-minute read: Class Size, Member Layout and Speed
We are exploring how class size and layout of its data members affect your program’s speed
Crash course introduction to parallelism: SIMD Parallelism
This is the first article about hardware support for parallelization. We talk about SIMD, an extension almost every processor nowadays has that lets you speed up your program.