https://mikejfromva.com/tags/cpu/ Recent content in Cpu on Mike's Software Development Blog Hugo en-us Sat, 23 May 2026 08:28:38 -0400 https://mikejfromva.com/post/retrospective-2002-performance-engineering-at-sun/ Tue, 19 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400 https://mikejfromva.com/post/retrospective-2002-performance-engineering-at-sun/ A retrospective on my work as a performance engineer at Sun Microsystems — two Supercomputing 2002 papers I gathered data for, the NUMA-and-MPI hardware landscape of the era, the UltraSPARC processors measured against the 6502 of my childhood and the CPUs of today, why the CISC-versus-RISC mental model is long past its expiration date, Tanenbaum’s register-less stack machine, and how a memcpy change shipped in Solaris.