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May 14, 2021

Web Review, Week 2021-19

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2021-19. Branch predictor: How many “if”s are too many? Including x86 and M1 benchmarks! Tags: tech, cpu, performance This is a very interesting deep dive in how branch predictors work. Also comparing timing profiles between different families of CPUs. https://blog.cloudflare.com/branch-predictor/ The price of dynamic memory: Allocation - Johny’s Software Lab Tags: tech, memory, performance Interesting piece covering: how a memory allocator works, why it can be slow, how to use it the best way possible and how to pick an allocator for your project. Read more

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  • Web Review, Week 2021-19 - May 14, 2021
  • Web Review, Week 2021-18 - May 7, 2021
  • Web Review, Week 2021-17 - Apr 30, 2021
  • Web Review, Week 2021-16 - Apr 23, 2021
  • Web Review, Week 2021-15 - Apr 16, 2021
  • Web Review, Week 2021-14 - Apr 9, 2021
  • Web Review, Week 2021-13 - Apr 2, 2021
  • Web Review, Week 2021-12 - Mar 26, 2021
  • Web Review, Week 2021-11 - Mar 19, 2021
  • Web Review, Week 2021-10 - Mar 12, 2021
  • Web Review, Week 2021-09 - Mar 5, 2021
  • Web Review, Week 2021-08 - Feb 27, 2021
  • Web Review, Week 2021-07 - Feb 19, 2021
  • News from KDE PIM in September-October 2020 - Nov 1, 2020
  • Sketchnotes at FOSDEM 2020 - Aug 14, 2020
  • KF6 Progress Report: Almost Bastille Day (July) Edition - Jul 12, 2020
  • Selecting a Software Component Through Community Analytics - Apr 20, 2020
  • KF6 Progress Report: February Edition - Feb 29, 2020
  • Guest Post: Current State of ComDaAn: Community Data Analytics, by Christelle Zouein - Jan 28, 2020
  • Looking back at 2019 - Jan 7, 2020
  • KF6 Progress Report: December Solstice Edition - Dec 28, 2019
  • KF6: How We Organize The Work - Dec 7, 2019
  • KF6 Kickoff Sprint Wrap-Up - Nov 24, 2019
  • Sketchnotes at Capitole du Libre 2019 - Nov 17, 2019
  • News from KDE PIM in September-October 2019 - Nov 5, 2019
  • Sketchnotes at Akademy 2019 - Sep 8, 2019
  • Sketchnotes at FOSDEM 2019 - Sep 6, 2019
  • Memories from Akademy 2018 - Aug 17, 2018
  • Sketchnotes at Akademy 2018 - Aug 15, 2018
  • Community Data Analytics Are Going to Akademy - Aug 10, 2018
  • Musing About Communities Size and Activity: A Follow-up - Aug 6, 2018
  • Musing About Communities Size And Activity - Jun 22, 2018
  • Exploring Contributors Centrality Over Time - Apr 22, 2018
  • Community Data Analytics: Now in Technicolor! - Apr 6, 2018
  • The Blue Blobs Return! Getting into Community Data Analytics - Mar 1, 2018
  • KDE Got a New Compass - Dec 27, 2017
  • Guest Post: Retired From KDE, by Paul Adams - Jul 22, 2017
  • Akademy 2014: Aiming higher - Sep 14, 2014
  • Akademy 2014: Navigating the tracks - Aug 31, 2014
  • Memories of FISL 15 - Jul 13, 2014
  • Memories of conf.kde.in 2014 - May 6, 2014
  • Live from Barcelona: KDE Frameworks Sprint - Apr 27, 2014
  • Memories of Akademy 2013 - Jul 26, 2013
  • KDE Manifesto: There and Back Again - Jul 14, 2013
  • KF5 @ Akademy 2013 - Jul 9, 2013
  • KDE Manifesto: On The Doorstep - May 10, 2013
  • Frameworks Finding Their Voice - May 7, 2013
  • KDE Manifesto: An Unexpected Party - Oct 12, 2012
  • KDE Workspace Sprint Wrap-up - Jun 15, 2012
  • KDE Frameworks 5 volunteer day 2 - Mar 22, 2012
  • First KDE Frameworks 5 volunteer day - Feb 13, 2012
  • Osnabrück KDE PIM Sprint 2012 - Feb 12, 2012
  • Bye Bye 2011 - Jan 8, 2012
  • Forge 2011: Metalworkers Videos - Oct 11, 2011
  • Zanshin 0.2 RC1 - Oct 10, 2011
  • Spontaneous Sticky Notes: KDE PIM Pain Points Sprint - Sep 18, 2011
  • Zanshin 0.2 beta2 - Aug 31, 2011
  • Desktop Summit: We're a family! ++5 years in one talk - Jul 31, 2011
  • Zanshin 0.2 beta1 - Jul 25, 2011
  • Sprint in Randa: Done? Not! - Jun 8, 2011
  • Sticky notes, Markers and Chocolate: Platform 11 in Randa - Jun 4, 2011
  • Zanshin 0.2 alpha2 - May 10, 2011
  • Tokamak 5 D5: People and Sticky Notes - Apr 30, 2011
  • Tokamak 5 D1: Bikes and Sticky Notes - Apr 26, 2011
  • KDE Release Party 4.6 Toulouse: C'est déjà fini! - Mar 21, 2011
  • KDE Release Party 4.6 Toulouse: Jour J! - Mar 18, 2011
  • KDE Release Party 4.6 Toulouse: J-1 - Mar 17, 2011
  • KDE Release Party 4.6 Toulouse: J-4 - Mar 14, 2011
  • Zanshin 0.2 alpha1 - Feb 7, 2011
  • KDE Platform Profiles: Help Me, Help You! - Nov 4, 2010
  • Agile in Developers Sprints: Scrum? Kanban? Scruban-ish! - Oct 5, 2010
  • Metalworkers unite! A Solid Sprint wrap-up - Oct 4, 2010
  • AK2010, D+4to6: Hectic and wrapping up - Jul 9, 2010
  • AK2010, D+3: Meetings, Meetings, Meetings - Jul 6, 2010
  • AK2010, D+2: KDE e.V. AGM World Record - Jul 5, 2010
  • AK2010, D+1: Let's be elegant - Jul 4, 2010
  • AK2010, D+1: Thought of the day: Aaron Seigo's facts - Jul 4, 2010
  • AK2010, D-Day: I see mobile talks everywhere - Jul 3, 2010
  • AK2010, D-1: Touchdown! - Jul 2, 2010
  • AK2010, D-3: Getting ready - Jun 29, 2010
  • KDE Platform Profiles: It's alive! - Apr 29, 2010
  • PhD Aftermath, more than two years later - Mar 6, 2010
  • Tokamak4: Three sprints in one? Lies! - Feb 23, 2010
  • Helping with Maemo SDK deployment: Qt/Maemo VM - Jan 13, 2010
  • The rise of the KDE/Maemo effort - Oct 27, 2009
  • libkimap - the genesis - Oct 22, 2009
  • KMail as components, Akonadi Mail Reader - Aug 20, 2009
  • The new IMAP4 IDOL, I mean IDLE - Jul 31, 2009
  • Memories of Akademy 2009: Sleeping beauty - Jul 20, 2009
  • Memories of Akademy 2009: Yes, we'll save the world - Jul 20, 2009
  • Memories of Akademy 2009: Best talk ever - Jul 20, 2009
  • Memories of Akademy 2009: Overview - Jul 20, 2009
  • Akademy 2009, here I come! (and some LaTeX magic inside) - Jul 1, 2009
  • Back from Tokamak II - Feb 10, 2009
  • Akademy 2008: Quickies - Aug 20, 2008
  • JOLIE Rocks! - Jun 28, 2008
  • Akademy 2008 Drink Awards - Jun 27, 2008
  • About stop energy - Jun 25, 2008
  • Akademy: Submit your abstracts now! - Apr 29, 2008
  • FISL 9.0 - Apr 20, 2008
  • Survived to a Tokamak Mark I - Apr 16, 2008
  • On Student Projects and Hacking Sessions in Toulouse - Mar 8, 2008
  • KDE 4.0 Release Party in Toulouse - Jan 29, 2008
  • Now it's easier to "be free." - Jan 12, 2008
  • Pradeepto's wedding: for our own fun and profit - Dec 17, 2007
  • FOSS.in, day 5.5 and 6: Leaving Bangalore - Dec 17, 2007
  • FOSS.in days 4 and 5: Wrapup - Dec 17, 2007
  • FOSS.in, day 3: Official opening - Dec 7, 2007
  • FOSS.in, day 2: KDE Project Day - Dec 6, 2007
  • FOSS.in, day 1: Namaste Bangalore - Dec 4, 2007
  • I'm a doctor!? - Oct 2, 2007
  • PhD out, feeling dry, a journey in my past - Jul 13, 2007
  • AK2007,D+8: Back home - Jul 9, 2007
  • AK2007,D+7: Last day - Jul 7, 2007
  • AK2007,D+5/6: Code, Rain, Meeting and more Rain - Jul 7, 2007
  • AK2007,D+3/4: BoFs and more BoFs - Jul 4, 2007
  • AK2007,D+2: Long day, nice evening - Jul 3, 2007
  • AK2007,D+1: Conference continued - Jul 2, 2007
  • AK2007,D-Day: Share the love - Jul 2, 2007
  • AK2007,D-1: My worst trip ever - Jul 2, 2007
  • AK2007,D-1: Imminent departure - Jun 29, 2007
  • Better late than never: Calgary - Jun 29, 2007
  • On procrastination and travels - Jun 5, 2007
  • The past three weeks in a nutshell, traveling again.... - May 11, 2007
  • Phonon and Solid Oslo Sprint: Day 2 and 3 - Apr 19, 2007
  • Phonon and Solid Oslo Sprint: Day 1 - Apr 16, 2007
  • KDE/ISI Student Projects: Finished - Apr 3, 2007
  • Hacking Session March 2007 - Mar 21, 2007
  • FOSDEM 2007 - Feb 26, 2007
  • Hacking Session February 2007 - Feb 18, 2007
  • Konqui Wants you for aKademy 2007! - Feb 12, 2007
  • My first qotd - Jan 12, 2007
  • Wake Me Up When October Ends - Oct 21, 2006
  • Got my GSoC 2006 T-Shirt! - Oct 17, 2006
  • AK2006 D+8 : Back home, thanks to the community - Oct 1, 2006
  • AK2006 D+7 : The End is coming for us... - Sep 30, 2006
  • AK2006 D+6 : Solid is in the place! Precious moments... - Sep 29, 2006
  • AK2006 D+5 : Solid house cleaning - Sep 29, 2006
  • AK2006 D+4 : Qt lecture, Solid refactoring, continued - Sep 28, 2006
  • AK2006 D+3 : ODF Day, Solid Refactoring - Sep 27, 2006
  • AK2006 D+2 : General Assembly, Google party - Sep 25, 2006
  • AK2006 D+1 : Last talks and awards - Sep 25, 2006
  • AK2006 D-Day : Gentlemen, start your engines! - Sep 23, 2006
  • AK2006 D-1 : Warming up... - Sep 22, 2006
  • AK2006 D-2 : Ready to roll! - Sep 21, 2006
  • Dr. LaTeX Beamer: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Slide - Sep 8, 2006
  • D-49 : aKademy 2006, I'm ready... almost - Aug 5, 2006
  • KDE Four Core : Day 6 - Jul 6, 2006
  • KDE Four Core : Day 5 - Jul 5, 2006
  • KDE Four Core : Day 3 and 4 - Jul 4, 2006
  • KDE Four Core : Day 2 - Jul 2, 2006
  • KDE Four Core : Day 1 - Jul 1, 2006
  • Kubuntu Developers Summit, Paris, Day 3-5 - Jun 23, 2006
  • Kubuntu Developers Summit, Paris, Day 0-2 - Jun 20, 2006
  • Progress on Solid - Feb 19, 2006
  • KDE promoting week - Feb 19, 2006
  • Solid : A new year, a new state of matter for KDE - Jan 4, 2006
  • D+3: I'm back home! - Oct 11, 2005
  • D+2: Preparing for departure - Oct 10, 2005
  • D+1: Diplomacy continued, work on HAL - Oct 9, 2005
  • D-Day: Looking a bit at Boston downtown... and diplomacy - Oct 8, 2005
  • D-1: What a day! Arrival in Boston... - Oct 7, 2005
  • D-2 : Going to the Gnome Boston Summit 2005!? - Oct 6, 2005
  • Learning a new language... why not? - Oct 4, 2005
  • Network management for KDE - Sep 22, 2005
  • Mind reading plasmoid! - Sep 15, 2005
  • D+10 : Home sweet home... - Sep 5, 2005
  • D+9 : The end, to be continued... - Sep 4, 2005
  • D+8 : Attended last meeting - Sep 3, 2005
  • D+7 : Hacking, hacking and hacking, before the end is coming - Sep 2, 2005
  • D+6 : Touristic Visit of Malaga - Sep 1, 2005
  • D+5 : Meeting day! - Sep 1, 2005
  • D+4 : The "Best" Tapas Restaurant of Malaga... - Aug 31, 2005
  • D+4 : Second day of Developers Conference - Aug 30, 2005
  • D+3 : Developers conference started! - Aug 29, 2005
  • D+2 : More users talks, Merchandising, Key Signing Party! - Aug 28, 2005
  • KIO evening... - Aug 28, 2005
  • D+1 : First talks in Users and Administrators Conference - Aug 27, 2005
  • Hey funny! I've been interviewed again!? - Aug 26, 2005
  • D-Day! Yeah landed! - Aug 26, 2005
  • D-1 : aKademy 2005! I'm coming! - Aug 25, 2005
  • About system:/ and UNIX hierarchy - Aug 18, 2005
  • Good bye aKademy - Aug 31, 2004
  • d+8 : Last aKademy day... - Aug 29, 2004
  • d+7 : First user conference day - Aug 29, 2004
  • d+6 : Half day.... - Aug 27, 2004
  • d+5 : BoF Marathon day... - Aug 26, 2004
  • d+4 : Hacking, and sleeping a lot... - Aug 26, 2004
  • d+2 and d+3 : Hacking, and maybe some sleep - Aug 25, 2004
  • d+1: More talks... soon back to business - Aug 23, 2004
  • d-day: It's alive!!! - Aug 22, 2004
  • d-1: The arrival and other considerations... - Aug 20, 2004
  • d-2 : Preparing departure - Aug 19, 2004
  • Audio conference is fun... and maybe useful ;) - Jul 21, 2004
  • Introduction and good news - Jul 8, 2004