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Re:How a Single Line of Code Made a 24-Core Server Slower Th... by hahhahanananana on Sunday June 18, 2023 @04:16AM (#36378276)
Would love to see someone recommend some beginner-friendly books to learn more about the theory behind this blogpost. Seems like a CS degree is the only straightforward way.
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Re:How a Single Line of Code Made a 24-Core Server Slower Th... by metaphor on Sunday June 18, 2023 @08:41AM (#36379752)
Patterson/Hennessy on Computer Organization and Hennessy/Patterson on Computer Architecture are considered foundational canon.

The implied expectation underlying "beginner-friendly" seems naively misguided; it's an advanced undergrad computer/software engineering topic in the most permissive sense, and the blog's prose appears to have been written with that minimum target audience in mind.

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