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Jonas Devlieghere
Personal blog · jonasdevlieghere.com · on HN as JDevlieghereprogrammingsystems
Jonas Devlieghere's personal blog at jonasdevlieghere.com covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Order Your Members”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-05, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Jonas Devlieghere's post on reordering Go struct fields to reduce memory use, which discusses cache-line effects and when smaller struct size helps performance.
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?
- Order Your Members2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-09
- Embedded Bitcode2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-23
- LLDB in 20252 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-15
What Hacker News says?
per https://jonasdevlieghere.com/order-your-members/ Smaller size is good for cache, but other factors matter From the above Single-Threaded Environment When a single thread on a single core is accessing the data in a struct, we can improve caching performance by using as little cache lines as possible. By optimizing for memory footprint, as discussed in the previous section, the struct uses less memory and hence oc…
Comment linking /order-your-members/
on “Saving a Third of Our Memory by Re-Ordering Go Struct Fields (2020)”Submitted Embedded Bitcode as a story · 3 points
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Enabling MTE for the LLDB Test Suite as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Order Your Members as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedded Bitcode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adopting the Parallel DWARF linker in dsymutil as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLDB in 2025 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLDB in 2025 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using LSP and clangd in Vim (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lua Scripting in LLDB as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exposing Containers of Unique Pointers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guaranteed Copy Elision in C++17 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A better YouCompleteMe Config as a story · 1 points
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