Numbers every programmer should know and their impact on benchmarks

Disclaimer: I don’t mean to be picking on the particular organizations / projects / people who I’ll mention below. They are just examples of a larger trend I observed.

Sometimes (most of the times?) we forget just how powerful the ...

Some time ago I came over the following article: Fast CRC32 in Assembly. It claimed that the assembly implementation was faster than the one implemented in C. Performance was always something I’m interested in, so I repeated and extended the experiment.

Here are the numbers I got. This is ...