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Optimizing by 1700x by not being silly (ayende.com)
9 points by gslin 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> yes, we design some pieces of RavenDB with CPU microcode for performance

This is… Oddly worded? Unless I’m missing something major (possible), they just mean “writing assembly with microcode in mind”, which is pretty standard for anyone writing optimised assembly, but they’ve written it as if they’re etching new microcode into the CPU




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