Caches: LRU vs. Random(danluu.com)

77 points by gslin 1 year ago | 15 comments

Some reasons to measure (2021)(danluu.com)

32 points by colonCapitalDee 2 years ago | 2 comments

Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires(danluu.com)

50 points by luu 1 month ago | 33 comments

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore(danluu.com)

592 points by Jach 2 months ago | 442 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing that LLM coding agents make specialized performance optimization cheap, illustrated with optimizing a regex engine for specific workloads.

Page Table Memory Consumption(frn.sh)

57 points by shellpipe 25 days ago | 10 comments

Blog post by Fernando Simões examining page table memory consumption, prompted by Linus Torvalds' 2003 argument for multi-level over hashed page tables.

Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend (2016)(danluu.com)

74 points by __natty__ 3 years ago | 105 comments