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Notes on systems programming, binary exploitation, databases, and math.
Recent
OLTP through the looking glass
notes on Harizopoulos et al’s paper on measuring the overhead of traditional OLTP components
the linux scheduler: a decade of wasted cores
notes on Lozi et al’s paper on performance bugs in the Linux CFS scheduler
quantifying the cost of context switching
notes on Li et al’s paper on measuring the indirect cost of context switches