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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
A nice example that combines reverse-engineering with some basic DS&A knowledge.
to algorithms cmp201 games gta performance reverse-engineering ... on 20 March 2021
ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift} - Andrew Gallant's Blog
The tool isn't hugely compelling, but the collection of benchmarks for a regexp search engine is interesting.
to benchmarking grep performance search text unix ... on 06 December 2016
"I started this blog because over my career so far as a software engineer, I’ve kept personally running into software that was slow, and wondering why. And when I had time to point a profiler at them and debug the slowness, I would very often discover quadratic behavior, which could usually be drastically improved to linear, with just a little work."
to algorithms cmp201 complexity performance programming ... on 27 November 2016
A student pointed me at this a couple of years ago -- cache-friendly programming from a games perspective.
to ag0803 architecture cache games performance programming ... on 14 October 2016
How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware - High Scalability -
As it says...
to cloud hosting performance ... on 14 October 2016
A pretty way of visualising profiler output.
to flame graph performance profiling visualisation ... on 14 October 2016
"How does this work? It's just a shell script!" Linux's ftrace facility turns out to be surprisingly capable... and there are a whole load of neat scripts that use it in perf-tools.
to debugging ftrace linux perf performance tracing ... on 14 October 2016
Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster
Nothing wrong with a bit of 1970s technology in the right context -- how to solve a not-very-big-data problem the right way.
to awk cloud cluster hadoop performance pipeline unix ... on 14 September 2016
Playing live music on the NES sound chip... by changing one bit at a time! Somewhat reminiscent of viznut's one-liners.
to chiptune music nes performance retrocomputing ... on 22 January 2016
Making SSH go faster on high-performance networks.
to buffering network performance ssh ... on 13 March 2015
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