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This is a lot of words to essentially repeat the "Latency Numbers every developer should know" by Peter Norvig:

https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832

EDIT: That was an uncharitable take and I apologize to the author.

What about the parts about SIMD, struct of arrays, the heap vs the stack, multithreading, the short introduction to assembly code, inlining and unrolling, and the actual explanations of what all those phrases in the doc you linked means?

You know, 80% of the content of my blog post?

Great article. Ignore the (if I may, arrogant) lossy compression attempted above.

I agree - this post is really useful, thanks for writing it!

What? That post has none of the information in this post. Did you even read it?

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