Interesting Links for June 2015
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Neil Brown wrote a couple of good articles about Linux's device model on lwn.net: a look at the kernel's device model and a tour of /sys/devices.
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Marek Majkowski wrote about his experiences on how to take most out of Linux's network stack on his article how to receive a million packets per second.
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GManNickG asked on StackOverflow why processing an ordered array is way faster than processing an unordered array, when the code didn't benefit from sorting in any way. Mystical replied with a great post on CPU branch prediction.
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Max Howell's job interview experience at Google inspired this critique of certain job interview methods in general.
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Dave Baggett reminisces of making the first Crash Bandicoot game fit on the PS1's memory.
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I found the results for the 2014 underhanded C contest. Interesting stuff, and a good reminder how relatively easy it is to inject malicius code in a codebase.