A collection of my favorite posts to read and re-read about optimizing code to an extreme. Unlikely that I will ever need to go to the extremes that these very talented individuals go to but its nice to learn the techniques. In no particular order. Announcement of Ripgrep a tool for searching code. Brilliantly written with benchmarks and analysis to explain what is happening for each https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ the HN comments about it are worth reading as well https://news.ycombinat...