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Dirty hands coding
Personal blog · dirtyhandscoding.github.ioprogrammingsystems
Dirty hands coding is a personal blog at dirtyhandscoding.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Performance comparison: linear search vs. binary search (2017)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A performance comparison post on search structures for SIMD hardware, including linear search versus B+trees. HN readers cite it as evidence that linear search can beat tree layouts even on larger sizes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Performance comparison: linear search vs. binary search (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-17
What Hacker News says?
In my experience, linear can outperform even on larger sizes. This looks like a pretty robust analysis: https://dirtyhandscoding.github.io/posts/performance-compari...
Comment linking /posts/performance-comparison-linear-search-vs-binary-search.html
on “A High Throughput B+tree for SIMD Architectures [pdf]”Submitted Utf8lut: Vectorized UTF-8 Converter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance comparison: linear search vs. binary search (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion