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🐢 Efficient C++? In 2023?! 😂 A riveting read on CPU cycles that assumes you have the attention span of a goldfish and the patience of a saint. 📈 Dive deep into #infographics because, apparently, nothing screams 'modern' like charts we've been ignoring since 1996. 📊
https://6it.dev/blog/infographics-operation-costs-in-cpu-clock-cycles-take-2-80736 #EfficientCpp #CPUcycles #ModernCharts #AttentionSpan #HackerNews #ngated
Infographics: Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles, Take 2 - 6IT

The cost of thread context switch, including cache invalidation, can reach up to 3 million CPU cycles RTTI can be quite expensive, with dynamic_cast being up...