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kconner / macOS Internals.md
Last active May 6, 2025 05:33
macOS Internals

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

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@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active May 6, 2025 07:45
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@mrflip
mrflip / tuning_storm_trident.asciidoc
Last active October 8, 2024 15:18
Notes on Storm+Trident tuning

Tuning Storm+Trident

Tuning a dataflow system is easy:

The First Rule of Dataflow Tuning:
* Ensure each stage is always ready to accept records, and
* Deliver each processed record promptly to its destination
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active May 8, 2025 06:10
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD