How close can pure functional programming get to C?

Debunking "Faster than Rust": Malicious Benchmarks in Tov

A new faster algorithm to compute 64-bit signed floor division

Beating the compiler at signed 32-bit division

The Benchmarking Crisis

Making SIMD Code Scale to Any Vector Width

The Performance Cost of RwLock in Our Read-Heavy Workload

Superoptimizing an FPU Emulator

How Fast is Python 3.15?

Memory is slow, Disk is fast

Switch Lowering in GCC

Using a lookup-table to correct an approximation

VictoriaLogs vs Loki, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, SigNoz and ClickStack on structured log ingestion

Vectorized CLZ and CTZ

Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages

A slightly faster slimmer curl

The Second Golden Spike: Memory Safety Across the Valen/Rust Boundary

Making np.searchsorted up to 25× Faster in NumPy 2.5

Don't throw it all away: Caching an immediate-mode UI

Spinlocks Considered Harmful (2020)

Crawlers, floods and fleets: a year of keeping our digital collections open

Rat's Register Allocator

Speeding up the Unreal editor by… not using unnecessarily secure hash methods

Shredding JSON columns gave Logfire up to 1000x faster queries

Profiling Org->HTML formal grammar and optimizing it: orgwebalchemy

Yet another performance degradation research induced by mutex in an unexpected hotpath in a mature database code.

Janet on x32: 32-bit Pointers, 64-bit Speed, 25% Less RAM

STAC-M3 Benchmark: L tick database 1.0 on Oxide OxVM w/ 128 vCPUs & 1.25 TiB of RAM

Python 3.15 vs Python 3.14 – performance testing

Heavenly delights of hashing numbers under EQUALP

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