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Over the years, I have learned a lot about how CPUs execute code and what their internals look like because I have worked on projects such as the Linux kernel and ScyllaDB, which are close to metal. I’ve even played a bit with Verilog in a futile attempt to build my own RISC-V core.Unlike CPUs, GPUs have been mostly...

Hello. This September will be the 25th anniversary of my writing my first program in a subset of C++ for a high school course. It’s been a long journey, so I thought I would reflect on what I’ve learned over these past 25 years in this post.First, what is “cool” is not always good programming style. The “cool” thing...