Dell distributes BIOS updates for the Latitude E7270 as PE32 Windows GUI executables. It turns out that the BIOS itself is able to extract the firmware images from such executables and to apply them. HOWTO¶ Get the latest BIOS update executable from e.g. https://www.dell.com/support/home …| Georg's Log
The article std::find() and memchr() Optimizations contains benchmark results for an Intel Core i5, an i7 and an older AMD system. This followup also adds results for a relatively recent SPARC system and an older PPC one. SPARC T5¶ First released in 2013, the SPARC T5 is a relative …| Georg's Log
Assume you need to parse a record based format with flexible width and one-byte delimiters. When using C++, the std::find() STL algorithm is the obvious choice for efficiently locating the delimiters. The idiomatic C solution is to use memchr(). Expectations Sample Code Methods How fast is std::find()? Does …| Georg's Log