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From 178ms to 1ms: When Store-to-Load Forwarding Stalls Your For Loop

Dev.to · Tyler Tan 6d ago

From 178ms to 1ms: When Store-to-Load Forwarding Stalls Your For Loop

Take a look at this C++ snippet. Spend half a minute reading it, then take a guess — how long do you...

Cache Deep Dive III — Replacement Policies, Prefetch, and Single-Thread Memory Access

Dev.to · Tyler Tan 1w ago

Cache Deep Dive III — Replacement Policies, Prefetch, and Single-Thread Memory Access

The previous article discussed the static structure of caches. This part moves into dynamic aspects:...

Cache Deep Dive II — Cache Organization and CPU Topology

Dev.to · Tyler Tan 1w ago

Cache Deep Dive II — Cache Organization and CPU Topology

Part I discussed the physical roots of the memory wall, the design principles of the memory...

Cache Deep Dive I — The Memory Wall and Locality

Dev.to · Tyler Tan 1w ago

Cache Deep Dive I — The Memory Wall and Locality

Introduction A core conviction behind this series: engineers who truly understand the...

Building SQLite from Scratch: 740 Lines of C++23 to Understand Every Byte of a .db File

Dev.to · Tyler Tan ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

Building SQLite from Scratch: 740 Lines of C++23 to Understand Every Byte of a .db File

You fire up a MySQL client, connect to port 3306, send off your SQL, and the server parses,...

Building Kafka from Scratch: A Message Broker in 1800 Lines of C++23

Dev.to · Tyler Tan ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago

Building Kafka from Scratch: A Message Broker in 1800 Lines of C++23

You wrote a web scraper. It crawls product pages and pipes the results downstream for processing. You...