Optimizers need a rethink(typesanitizer.com)

132 points by ingve 2 years ago | 139 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.

I added some optimizations to my compiler that turns Lisp into JavaScript(healeycodes.com)

102 points by healeycodes 2 years ago | 17 comments

Understanding DeepMind's sorting algorithm(justine.lol)

325 points by jart 3 years ago | 48 comments

Justine Tunney's blog post analyzing DeepMind's AlphaDev-discovered sorting kernels and how they apply to C library sorting code.

Background of Linux's "file-max" and "nr_open" limits on file descriptors (2021)(utcc.utoronto.ca)

28 points by cloudripper 2 years ago | 9 comments

The QMA Singularity(scottaaronson.blog)

73 points by frozenseven 1 year ago | 28 comments