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.

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

50 points by luu 1 month ago | 33 comments

Benchmark in Milliseconds(matklad.github.io)

143 points by surprisetalk 21 days ago | 47 comments

A blog post by matklad arguing that micro benchmarks should be sized to run around 300 milliseconds, explaining the reasons for this rule of thumb.

The Ken Thompson Hack(wiki.c2.com)

98 points by stephc_int13 2 years ago | 27 comments

How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?(danluu.com)

69 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 97 comments

Why I love OCaml (2023)(mccd.space)

379 points by art-w 11 months ago | 270 comments

Personal blog post by Marc Coquand explaining why he loves OCaml, comparing it with Haskell and other languages he has used.