Stories by nkurz

IKEA Sit/Stand Desk Review: I Can't Believe How Much I Like This

The Mythical Modulo Mask

An introduction to the stack data structure

Little’s Law: An insight on the relation between latency and throughput

Replay: Unknown Features of the NetBurst Core (2005)

Replay: Unknown Features of the NetBurst Core

The archaic convention of regarding a number with a leading zero as octal

Stochastic Optimization of Floating-point Programs with Tunable Precision [pdf]

How L1 and L2 CPU caches work, and why they’re an essential part of modern chips

Japanese zoning

LwIP on BareMetal: Lightweight TCP/IP stack running on ultra-lightweight kernel

Andy Glew's CompArch wiki

The History of Online Advertising

The most important rail hub in North America is also the most dysfunctional

Reallocarray() in OpenBSD: Integer Overflow Detection for Free

The JVM Write Barrier – Card Marking

Effects of the x86 ISA on the Front End: Where have all the cycles gone? (2001) [pdf]

RBP and R13 as base register – threat or menace? (2013)

Why Google wants to replace Gmail

Hand Coded Assembly Beats Intrinsics in Speed and Simplicity

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