January 2010
5 posts
InfoQ: A Crash Course in Modern Hardware →
A video on what makes modern processors so hard to study and predict performance.
Favorite quotes:
Your program…is going to be blips between cache misses.
The real new goal of all these hardware tricks is to run until you can get to the next cache miss.
Modern system architectures, and the timing differences between subsystems (Registers, L[1-3] caches, main memory, SSDs, HDs, and...
“And you offer me dead trees and papercut nostalgia.”
– waffle → Columnist
John Carey’s Most Excellent Photoblog – Shawn... →
In addition to subscribing to fiftyfootshadows.net, I also recommend that you: (a) download all of John’s desktop wallpapers; (b) set them to rotate every hour; and (c) enjoy.
Seconded. These are gorgeous.
“Any sufficiently advanced damage control is indistinguishable from ethics.”
– Hacker News
“I suppose that’s a major theme of this decade that has just been: the failure of...”
– ck/ck - The Sound Of My Head Banging Against The Wall