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22 from 4 Mar 2020 to 19 Dec 2024
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now and then
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2024 1

  1. “The Godfather II” of Tech Book Sequels

2023 4

  1. CPU Affinity: Because Even A Single Chip Is Nonuniform
  2. My Top 7 Performance Books for Engineers
  3. Last Level Cache: Where It’s Bad To Be Inclusive
  4. My Fear of Commitment to the 1st CPU Core

2022 8

  1. A Perfect Holiday Gift for Software Developers
  2. Beginner’s Mindset: Key to Engineering Expertise
  3. System Interrupts: How to Hunt Them Down
  4. 5-level vs 4-level Page Tables: Does It Matter?
  5. Debunking 5 Stubborn Systems Performance Myths
  6. Google Benchmark w/o PMU Counters? Congratulations, you played yourself!
  7. IPC is to CPU% What Milk is to Cinnamon Toast Crunch
  8. Memory Access Patterns and New Year’s Resolutions

2021 7

  1. Festivus Airing of Grievances: My Performance Pet Peeves
  2. TLB Shootdowns: How To Deter or Disarm Them
  3. Cache Ping Pong: Crack Down on Unsanctioned Games
  4. Noisy Neighbor Effect: How to Manage It
  5. Game of Low Latency
  6. Intel DDIO: A VIP Pass to Skip the Line
  7. CPU Benchmarks and Bad Tinder Dates

2020 2

  1. Beat Einstellung Effect with Shift Left Performance
  2. Are You Shifting Left Enough?