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Things I’ve written elsewhere, gathered in one place.

• 2025-09-29 Performance Tip of the Week #99: Illuminating the processor core with llvm-mca
• 2025-08-23 Performance Tip of the Week #98: Measurement has an ROI
• 2025-08-21 Performance Tip of the Week #97: Virtuous ecosystem cycles
• 2025-07-01 Performance Tip of the Week #95: Spooky action at a distance
• 2025-06-26 Performance Tip of the Week #94: Decision making in a data-imperfect world
• 2025-05-27 Performance Tip of the Week #93: Robots never sleep
• 2025-02-06 Performance Tip of the Week #90: How to estimate
• 2024-11-07 Performance Tip of the Week #88: Measurement methodology: Avoid the jelly beans trap
• 2024-10-16 Performance Tip of the Week #87: Two-way doors
• 2024-06-17 Performance Tip of the Week #83: Reducing memory indirections
• 2024-01-19 Performance Tip of the Week #79: Make at most one tradeoff at a time
• 2023-09-29 Performance Tip of the Week #74: Avoid sweeping street lights under rugs
• 2023-09-29 Performance Tip of the Week #75: How to microbenchmark
• 2023-08-07 Performance Tip of the Week #72: Optimizing optimization
• 2023-06-26 Performance Tip of the Week #70: Defining and measuring optimization success
• 2022-10-21 Performance Tip of the Week #64: More Moore with better API design
• 2022-07-07 Performance Tip of the Week #62: Identifying and reducing memory bandwidth needs
• 2022-06-06 Performance Tip of the Week #60: In-process profiling: lessons learned
• 2021-01-22 Performance Tip of the Week #39: Beware microbenchmarks bearing gifts
• 2020-05-20 Performance Tip of the Week #26: Fixing things with hashtable profiling
• 2019-06-24 Performance Tip of the Week #9: Optimizations past their prime