going fast is about doing less

optimization isn’t always about multi-threading and optimizing hardware utilization. in fact, most performance work is about simply doing less. tantan’s video: philosophies of optimization (highly recommend): simple code high performance: slides & code: discord: handmade network: (there’s a discord link on the homepage) chapters: 00:00-00:33 - intro 00:33-01:53 - doing less 01:53-02:40 - problem description 02:40-06:34 - initial solution 06:34-08:31 - caching 08:31-10:09 - more caching! 10:09-13:45 - using abstractions well 13:45-17:53 - more domain knowledge! 17:53-19:40 - a beautiful ending