@molecularmusing excellent talk! I also appreciated the non-technical slides! Danke! 💪

@molecularmusing For interning, another thing I sometimes do in addition to sharding is a fixed-size thread-local cache since sharding doesn't help with contention for hot strings that hit the same shard. Another useful trick is to use a tagged representation (e.g. you can store small strings inline via a tagged pointer), so you bypass the data structure entirely; how much this matters depends on the use case (e.g. it can help a lot for identifiers in a compiler).

@molecularmusing using NtQueryDirectoryFile to get file attributes in batches is a nice trick, might come in handy some day!

@molecularmusing Thanks! FWIW I think this-relative pointer is commonly referred to as offset pointer (offset_ptr). Used to be super handy for binary deserialization in games!

@molecularmusing Thanks for sharing, all I want to know now is what is the 'Next Thing' :)