Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Problem statement 1.2 Motivation 1.3 Recommended reading 1.4 Binary search and Eytzinger layout 1.5 Hugepages 1.6 A note on benchmarking 1.7 Cache lines 1.8 S-trees and B-trees 2 Optimizing find 2.1 Linear 2.2 Auto-vectorization 2.3 Trailing zeros 2.4 Popcount 2.5 Manual SIMD 3 Optimizing the search 3.1 Batching 3.2 Prefetching 3.3 Pointer arithmetic 3.3.1 Up-front splat 3.3.2 Byte-based pointers 3.3.3 The final version 3.4 Skip prefetch 3.5 Interleave 4 O...
