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Archive for September 10th, 2025

What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/10

[Wayback/Archive] What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube

Main takeaways for me:

  • CPU pipelines have grown a lot longer than I was aware off
  • there are many more internal registers than I was anticipating
  • clever ways to convert if statements to non-jumps

--jeroen

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“The Pocket Guide to Debugging” zine and Debugging Puzzels by b0rk (Julia Evans)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/10

I forgot scheduling this post, but it is still very relevant: about the debugging related materials by b0rk (Julia Evans) as they are not limited to just “The Pocket Guide to Debugging”.

It is excellent material to learn at home, work or be used during education.

Before the Elmo* takeover, she mainly used Twitter to post beta material and later the final versions. Easiest queries to find back the Tweets are:

Here are some of links found via the above lists of tweets:

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