Stories by signa11

Selling Laziness

How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry (2015)

Matrix Multiplication Revisited: With SIMD Intrinsics

Suggestion for a witty Emacs command for a mug?

Lightning Network as a Solution for Bitcoin's Scaling Problems

Please, Keep Your Blog Light

Surfing on Lava: Feedback Control and Tuning the BEAM

Outperforming LAPACK with C metaprogramming

NP-hard does not mean hard

James Micken: The Night Watch [pdf]

The Pixel Factory

An Analysis of Hash Map Implementations in Popular Languages

Addressing Meltdown and Spectre in the kernel

Is it time for open processors?

Shrinking the kernel with link-time garbage collection

Facebook is a ‘living, breathing crime scene,’ says one former tech insider

ICC and VTune Now Available for Free as Part of Intel Studio

SYN packet handling in the wild

What’s Tokio and Async IO All About?

Microsoft’s Performance Contributions to Git in 2017