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Leandros / links.md
Last active January 23, 2025 19:15
Writing a Modern Rendering Engine
@shoooe
shoooe / any.hpp
Last active July 5, 2021 02:19
A simple implementation of Boost's any, as an exercise.
#pragma once
#include <exception>
#include <memory>
#include <typeinfo>
#include <type_traits>
class any;
template<class Type> Type any_cast(any&);
@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active November 2, 2025 19:16
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active November 3, 2025 07:01
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD