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HARDWARE-AWARE CODING: CPU ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTS EVERY DEVELOPER SHOULD KNOW

blog.codingconfessions.com33 min read

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Understanding CPU architecture can lead to huge performance improvements in code. This article goes over concepts like instruction pipelining, memory caching, and speculative execution. Optimizing code to align with these hardware behaviors (like data structure layout, memory access patterns, and branch prediction) can make execution time much faster.