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Ah yes, the age-old quest to understand hard disk geometry 🎩 through the noble art of #microbenchmarking 🛠️. Because clearly, reverse engineering a tech relic from the 1980s is the key to unlocking 2019-level #innovation. Just what the world needed! 📀🔧
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Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry through Microbenchmarking « Blog

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Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking (2019)

https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2019/09/hard-disk-geometry-microbenchmarking/

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Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry through Microbenchmarking « Blog

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Nov 22, 2021

“How I Got Nerd Sniped Into Benchmarking Legacy x86 Instructions” [2019], Ace Pace (https://www.acepace.net/2019-07-27-xlatb/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29300973

#Intel #Assembly #x86 #Optimization #Benchmarking #MicroBenchmarking #CPU #CISC #RISC #Performance

How I got nerd sniped into benchmarking legacy x86 instructions

It all started with a meme tweet: Laugh, scroll past, then I started wondering, “what are the chances this obscure opcode is faster than optimized loads?” and I realized I had just been nerd sniped. So I decided to dig up my half-remembered memories of how to benchmark opcodes and...