Speed Matters

scattered-thoughts.net

This post is part of a series, starting at Reflections on a decade of coding. I think that one of the most important things to focus on improving is how fast you can work. I wrote strucjure in 2012 and … Read more

The Speed of Time

brendangregg.com
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How long does it take to read the time? How would you time time? These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird … Read more

Speed of Rust vs. C

kornel.ski

The run-time speed and memory usage of programs written in Rust should about the same as of programs written in C, but overall programming style of these languages is different enough that it’s hard to generalize their speed. This is … Read more

Speed Is the Killer Feature

bdickason.com
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Do you remember your first time using a modern smartphone? A vibrant screen that responded instantly when you tapped replaced cramped keyboards. You could sign your name, drag and drop apps around the screen, and even spin the giant Price … Read more