Brian Toal

[Brian Toal @briantoal]

Another example of fine broadcasting . Meeting of the minds.

[Brian Toal @briantoal]

@NHL_On_TNT amateur hour tonight. Kings homers. officiating awful, handed the kings the game tonight. Shaq and Charles would call this better, jokesters.

[Brian Toal @briantoal]

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[Brian Toal @briantoal]

@DanvilleSR_News Hockey’s not on tonight must be bored.

[Travis Downs @trav_downs]

I wrote a post about a grouping of concurrent algorithms into performance "levels". I use this mental model to more quickly map out the design space and dismiss alternatives that aren't likely to provide a performance boost.

https://t.co/T45wUJm0m7

Feedback warmly welcomed.

[NHL @NHL]

Stick taps for new @HockeyHallFame inductee and @EdmontonOilers legend Kevin Lowe!

Read more on @NHLdotcom ➡️ https://t.co/uQMo9uPNbb

[Salesforce @salesforce]

We stand with the Black community against racism, violence, and hate. Now more than ever we must support one another as allies and speak up for justice and equality.

[Travis Downs @trav_downs]

If you haven't had enough of masks by now, here's some light reading on the AVX-512 variety:

https://t.co/OEGWYzzZg1

The finding is a bit "meh, so what?", but what's neat is that it is the first time I saw something in a die shot that led to a theory I could test in software.

[Travis Downs @trav_downs]

Here's a follow up on my last post about apparent hardware store elimination on Intel Skylake CPUs.

This one covers the new kid on the block: Ice Lake.

Spoiler: the effect is back and about twice as strong!

Let's put in the under/over on typos at 12.

https://t.co/5NKysxDyPg

[Brian Toal @briantoal]

@trav_downs As an aside, any thoughts on how you determine how fragmented a malloc arena is?

[Brian Toal @briantoal]

@trav_downs We’ve coincidentally had to break out jemalloc lately to profile allocations. However, we were concerned that switching to a completely different allocator could alter behavior masking the problem. This looks interesting...

[Travis Downs @trav_downs]

Took way to long to add comments to my blog:

https://t.co/hXto585pe7

Give it a whirl/stress test if you want. Only enabled on that post for now, but I'll enable it by default if everything works.

[Brian Toal @briantoal]

@parkerharris @MinisterKTR @ktrts @salesforce @jayesh_ranjan @Benioff @amy_e_weaver @EricLoeb4 @ShwetaRKohli Se

[Brian Toal @briantoal]

Discussion on HN if current character limit is too restrictive: https://t.co/kzGScJzBcm

[Brian Toal @briantoal]

@SalesforceEng Discussion on HN if current character limit is too restrictive: https://t.co/kzGScJzBcm

[Brian Toal @briantoal]

How to Continuously Profile Tens of Thousands of Production Servers by Paul Howden https://t.co/JUzufFNizI

[Travis Downs @trav_downs]

New post, "Not All Zeros Created Equal":

https://t.co/yPwypiiiFz

A twisted tale about the fragility of high level type-traits based optimization.

[Brian Toal @briantoal]

@trav_downs I usually go B, as ive found the jitter added is nit significant enough. C seems interesting though.