Mechanical Sympathy

Memory is stored within the cache system in units know as cache lines.  Cache lines are a power of 2 of contiguous bytes which are typically...

In this article I'll discuss the most fundamental technique in concurrent programming known as memory barriers, or fences, that make th...

In a series of articles I’ll aim to show the performance impact of processor affinity in a range of use cases. Background A thread of e...

Martin Fowler has written a great article about the architecture we developed for our exchange LMAX .  The article explains the origins ...

A programming idiom I often see in managed runtime environments, such as Java, is to return a collection or array from a method that is ...

Modern CPUs employ lots of techniques to counteract the latency cost of going to main memory.  These days CPUs can process hundreds of instr...

A little while ago I discovered this wonderful quote by Henry Peteroski: "The most amazing achievement of the computer software indus...