There Is a Mountain Lion in the Datacenter (opens in new tab)

The previous piece on this site argued that the Stroustrup video had a chorus of agreement from the people who actually built C++: look the trivia up; the model in head is what matters. The model in head, for the engineer who has to ship at HFT cycle counts, is a model of the machine. It is the cache, the page, the queue, the signal, the syscall. It is the part of the world the application programmer’s curriculum was supposed to make optional and could not, because no curriculum can override ...