This week and last weekend I was primarily focusing on memory pools, allocators, CPU caches. I now probably know how allocators work, simply separating memory allocation & objects initialization, for example, reserve() function in std::vector, it doesn’t initialize the allocated data segment, thus permitting better performance when we don’t need initialize the data immediately. CPU …
Author Archives: Mark Taylor
Scott Meyers: CPU Caches and Why You Care
Very interesting topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIkqP4JbkE
The Pick-up Artist
May I ask you a very personal question? Did anyone ever tell you that you have the face of a Botticelli and the body of a Degas? Is there a crime against comparing a woman to a work of art? See detailed pick-up lines here.
Completing in Communication
This week I had a discussion about error estimates for FEM with Miss White on Wednesday evening. While in communication about our ideas, I found a few things that I had deemed almost perfect, but it turned out that it was never meant to be perfect if you don’t have an in-depth discussion with someone …
Grab A Spoon
New Project – Weekly Summary
Sooo, finally, I decided to launch a new project that aims for self-improvement via writing summaries, which can be: insightful thoughts, achievements I’ve made, things I really need to put efforts on, horrible things I’ve committed, interests I would like to nurture, awesome people I’ve encountered, challenges I should take, goals I should strive for, …
Peace, Power, & Hope
A Fantastic Girl
It seems that I’m invariably lucky enough to meet fantastic girls?. These days, I’ve been occasionally meeting an incredibly adorable girl in Banan Library, with a distance of about 50m to which I rented a small room for study & preparing my summer internship. It all began with one of my library friends, a ♀, …
The Elevator
There’re a couple of YouTube videos that illustrate the history & principles of elevators. History Part Principle Part And the follow-up is a very impressive animation made by UC Berkeley. Elevator Brake Systems