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  1. Bash Performance Tricks

    My coworkers presented a silly programming interview style question to me the other day: given a list of words, find the largest set of words from that list that all have the same hash value. Everyone was playing around with a different language, and someone made the claim that it …

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  2. A cross-platform monotonic timer

    I've been working on writing a memory bandwidth benchmark for a while and needed to use a monotonic timer to compute accurate timings. I have since learned that this is more challenging to do that I initially expected and each platform has a different way of doing it.

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