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Aug 26, 20261 min read

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  • 2023-12-23-even-among-performance-minded-folks-theres-a
  • 2024-12-30-the-simplest-multi-producer-multi-consumer-ring

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  • Dec 30, 2024

    The simplest multi-producer-multi-consumer ring buffer data structure would seem to need one "trit" (ternary bit) of state per buffer entry, for the states "awaiting write", "awaiting read", "busy"

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  • Dec 23, 2023

    even among performance minded folks, there's a persistent myth that malloc is "pretty fast" when in fact it's so performance hostile that big game productions ban it at link time, to eliminate the damage it causes

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