Profit or Poverty: False Sharing
An exploration of false sharing in CPU caches, how it silently degrades performance, and why it matters in low-latency environments.
Posts with tag “performance”
See all tags
4 posts in total
Profit or Poverty: TLB
Understanding virtual memory, the TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffer), and its performance impact on low-latency systems.
Profit or Poverty: Realtime kernel patch
An overview of the Linux scheduler’s limitations and why realtime kernel patches are essential for time-critical applications.
Profit or Poverty: NUMA
An introduction to NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) and why mastering it is a hard requirement for HFT micro-optimizations.