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Sage Holloway 🍓

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Sage Holloway 🍓

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Sep 17

$I Replaced Every std::endl with \n and the Syscall Count Didn't Move$

I Replaced Every std::endl with \n and the Syscall Count Didn't Move

On a terminal, nothing changed. Redirect the output to a file and the exact same edit cuts the system call count by 256x. The reason lives…

Saurav M.

Sep 16

Sage Holloway 🍓

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Sep 9

Two engines, one collection, and the accounting problem that decided which one runs your query

Saurav M.

Sep 8

Sage Holloway 🍓

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Sep 4

Same query, same collection, same second. explain() says the query will examine 602 index keys. It examines 140,333. Both numbers are…

Saurav M.

Sep 2

Sage Holloway 🍓

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Sep 4

Your fields add up to 11. The other 13 bytes are padding, alignment, and the LP64 vs LLP64 split.

Saurav M.

Aug 31

Sage Holloway 🍓

reposted

Aug 31

Everything That Happens Behind GCC and G++: Preprocessing, Assembly, Linkage, and the OS Loader

Saurav M.

Aug 30

You're all caught up!