Ritesh Ghosh

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in 2019 a researcher at Microsoft wrote a paper called "Free List Sharding in Action" and proved that malloc has been slow this whole time he built a drop-in replacement called 'mimalloc' and published the numbers you have been using malloc since you started writing C it works, it is fine, and it is leaving performance on the table glibc malloc was designed to be general purpose across every possible allocation pattern that generality has a cost it uses a single global free list per size class, protected by a lock under any real multithreaded workload every thread is contending on the same lock the fix is simple instead of one big free list per size class, give every 64KiB page its own free list each page also gets two separate lists: one for thread-local frees, one for frees coming from other threads cross-thread frees become a single atomic compare-and-swap with no lock thread-local allocation never touches a lock at all on the larson server benchmark mimalloc is 2.5x faster than tcmalloc and jemalloc under heavy multithreaded workloads on Linux it runs 5.3x faster than glibc malloc with 50% less resident memory it is used in Death Stranding, Unreal Engine, NoGIL CPython 3.13, and Microsoft Bing Redis ships jemalloc by default but mimalloc benchmarks faster than jemalloc across most workloads the fast path in the source is 7 instructions on x64 with a single conditional the comment in the source file says exactly this

can’t stop staring at my wallpaper 🤤

@_trish_xD Java and QBASIC, back in school

Programming language you learned once but never touched again?

This indie dev spent 1,400+ days building his game, Tangy TD, completely from scratch in C++. Seeing him and his wife react after the game earned $250,000 in its first week after launch is honestly beautiful.

Wanted this for a long time

el rageo de fibonacci

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guys if you’re seeing this plzzzz drop ANY random photo from your gallery. i’m bored 😭😭😭

I’ve successfully reduced Phone time by looking at Computer more

Official God valley ost

@ankiitamalik @astroinrealtime yeah, am libra according to my moon sign

@riteshgsh @astroinrealtime but isn’t your birthday in may?

feelings are rising, libra. don’t run from them.

@ankiitamalik @astroinrealtime as a libra I can confirm haha

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@SamarSingla6 Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it out.

@riteshgsh Well Done!! I also recommend typeracer, it forces you to correct your mistakes as well 🙂‍↕️ that's how I practiced

a little progress

@ankiitamalik @Jitesh_117 Definitely, I'd say go with a mechanical one, the feedback it gives is so encouraging. You can go for Redragon Kumara K552, which isn't that expensive and is a good starting point for mechanical keyboards. amzn.in/d/hCDKpei

@riteshgsh @Jitesh_117 great! time for me to buy a keyboard and practice cuz my laptop keys will cry with the pressure haha

@ankiitamalik I was in your shoes a couple of years ago. As I practiced I saw my speed increase and that got me hooked up, aiming for more wpm with better accuracy. Wanna reach heights like @Jitesh_117.

@riteshgsh nicee! ar amar 50 cross hoina 😂