VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. High-Speed Packet Transmission in Go: From net.Dial to AF_XDP 2024-03-31

   tags: linux/kernel, linux/kernel/ebpf, network/bgp, network/packet, network/router, network/socket, programming/go

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   • Building an XDP (eXpress Data Path) based BGP peering router
   • atoonk/ping-aws-ips - ping all AWS IP addresses to see how many ec2 instances AWS has at any given time
   • atoonk/go-pktgen - Go Packet Generator
2. Regex engine internals as a library 2023-07-14

   tags: programming/c++, programming/go, programming/regular-expressions, programming/rust

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   • rust-lang/regex
   • google/re2
   • BurntSushi/rebar - A biased barometer for gauging the relative speed of some regex engines on a curated set of tasks
   • Resources about implementing regular expression search efficiently, Russ Cox
3. Speeding up Prettier locally and on your CI with dprint 2022-05-02

   tags: programming/node.js, programming/rust, static-analysis/lint, text/formatting

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   • https://dprint.dev/
4. Speeding up a Git monorepo at Dropbox with less than 200 lines of code - Dropbox 2020-12-15

   tags: performance, source-code-management, source-code-management/git, source-code-management/monorepo

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   • https://facebook.github.io/watchman/
   • https://github.com/cstrahan/go-watchman
   • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23480198
   • https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-featuremanyFiles
   • https://github.com/jgavris/rs-git-fsmonitor
   • https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample
5. avx-turbo: Test the non-AVX, AVX2 and AVX-512 speeds across various active core counts 2019-12-31

   tags: hardware/cpu, instruction, intel, performance, performance/benchmark, processor

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   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions
   • https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/avx-512-overview.html
6. Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me 2019-10-17

   tags: architecture, human, performance, programming, quality, software, speed

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7. Stevey's Blog Rants: Programming's Dirtiest Little Secret 2018-08-17

   tags: code, keyboard, speed, text, typing

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8. High Speed Networking: Open Sourcing our Kernel Bypass Work - BBC R&D 2018-05-04

   tags: linux, network, network/packet, performance, stream, video

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   • https://www.smpte.org/st-2110
   • https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015-10-streaming-video-on-10-gigabit-ethernet-and-beyond
   • https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2016-05-ip-studio-at-the-uk-network-operators-forum
   • https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/cloud-fit-production
9. Lenovo Thinkpad 13 + Linux - Feedback 2017-04-15

   tags: fan, hardware, hardware/cpu, heat, laptop, lenovo, linux, noise

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   +++: backlit keyboard, battery ++: HDPI matte screen, touchpad+trackpad -: BIOS messages in approximative English --: no ethernet port ---: cooling / fan noise

   ETH available through:

   • 10$ generic USB-C adapter
   • 25$ Lenovo USB-C adapter
   • 150$ Lenovo USB-C dock
   • 180$ Lenovo docking station

   Cooling / fan control:

   • triggered when the CPU reaches approx. 46° / 20% load
   • slowest speed: 3400 RPM (!), goes up to 4000+ RPM

   TODO:

   • try updating BIOS/UEFI
   • use a laptop cooling pad
   • killall -9 firefox # not really an option tho

   User-contributed feedback:

   • https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4k2kzl/debian_on_the_thinkpad_13/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4jh3wb/thinkpad_13_manjaroarch_impressions/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4lzsks/my_thinkpad_13_experience_with_ubuntu_1604/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4pieti/thinkpad_13_fan_vs_zenbook/
10. Speeding up your emacs startup : emacs 2017-03-18

    tags: client, daemon, editor, editor/emacs, linux

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    • https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ProfileDotEmacs
    • https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html
    • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/778716/how-can-i-make-emacs-start-up-faster
11. performance - How to speed up / parallelize downloads of git submodules using git clone --recursive? - Stack Overflow 2016-06-08

    tags: fetch, parallel, performance, pull, source-code-management/git, submodule, update

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12. How do you speed up your developer workflow on linux? 2015-08-10

    tags: command-line, development, editor, environment, linux, network, terminal, tool, unix, workflow

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    Plenty of ideas to optimize / smooth your development flow in Tuxland ;-)

13. Code Quality: Speed + Comprehensibility - ML in the Valley 2015-07-20

    tags: code, development, maintenance, programming/testing, quality, team

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