Stories by signa11

Basics of Rationalist Discourse

GCC’s -O3 Can Transform Performance

Internode Cache Thrashing: Hunting a NUMA Performance Bug

The CPU architectural question of what is a (reserved) NOP

Distinguishing an Interpreter from a Compiler

An exceedingly cute protocol for biased locking with transactions

Adventures with a “Working” Pentium III Motherboard

Introduction to the actor-based concurrency model

Crabs: The Bitmap Terror [pdf]

Too many words about Rust's function syntax

The Craft of Emacs: A cross-stitch themed guide to Emacs Lisp, written in Racket

Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be?

Netheads vs. bellheads: the strange victory of SIP over the telephone network

A survey of the Python packaging landscape

Rust 1.67.0

Zen of Assembly Language

Sylver: A Language Agnostic Tool for Source Code Exploration and Analysis

Convergence Verification of the Collatz Problem

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