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2025  5

April  1

Calling CUDA in 3000 Words

April 5, 2025 · 19 min · 3880 words · Ash Vardanian

February  1

The Longest Nvidia PTX Instruction

February 5, 2025 · 8 min · 1619 words · Ash Vardanian

January  3

Hiding x86 Port Latency for 330 GB/s/core Reductions 🫣

January 19, 2025 · 7 min · 1343 words · Ash Vardanian

Parsing JSON in C & C++: Singleton Tax

January 7, 2025 · 20 min · 4169 words · Ash Vardanian

10x Faster C++ String Split, 16 Years Later 👴🏻

January 2, 2025 · 14 min · 2873 words · Ash Vardanian

2024  6

November  2

The Next 31 Years of Developing Unum

November 26, 2024 · 3 min · 561 words · Ash Vardanian

Understanding SIMD: Infinite Complexity of Trivial Problems 🔥

November 25, 2024 · 31 min · 6440 words · Ash Vardanian

September  2

5x Faster Set Intersections: SVE2, AVX-512, & NEON 🤐

September 16, 2024 · 25 min · 5120 words · Ash Vardanian

35% Discount on Keyword Arguments in Python 🐍

September 8, 2024 · 16 min · 3203 words · Ash Vardanian

March  1

NumPy vs BLAS: Losing 90% of Throughput

March 12, 2024 · 9 min · 1729 words · Ash Vardanian

February  1

The Painful Pitfalls of C++ STL Strings 🧵

February 12, 2024 · 11 min · 2262 words · Ash Vardanian

2023  11

November  2

USearch Molecules: 28 Billion Chemical Embeddings on AWS ⚗️

November 20, 2023 · 15 min · 3183 words · Ash Vardanian

Binding a C++ Library to 10 Programming Languages 🔟

November 9, 2023 · 16 min · 3309 words · Ash Vardanian

October  5

Python, C, Assembly - 2'500x Faster Cosine Similarity 📐

October 30, 2023 · 17 min · 3465 words · Ash Vardanian

GCC Compiler vs Human - 119x Faster Assembly 💻🆚🧑‍💻

October 23, 2023 · 6 min · 1192 words · Ash Vardanian

Accelerating JavaScript arrays by 10x for Vector Search 🏹

October 21, 2023 · 11 min · 2247 words · Ash Vardanian

Our CPython bindings got 5x faster without PyBind11 🐍

October 10, 2023 · 12 min · 2556 words · Ash Vardanian

SciPy distances… up to 200x faster with AVX-512 & SVE 📏

October 7, 2023 · 13 min · 2607 words · Ash Vardanian

July  2

Combinatorial Stable Marriages for DBMS Semantic Joins 💍

July 18, 2023 · 10 min · 2102 words · Ash Vardanian

StringZilla: 5x faster strings with SIMD & SWAR 🦖

July 10, 2023 · 9 min · 1816 words · Ash Vardanian

May  2

Abusing Vector Search for Texts, Maps, and Chess ♟️

May 9, 2023 · 10 min · 2077 words · Ash Vardanian

Counting Strings in C++: 30x Throughput Difference 💬

May 9, 2023 · 8 min · 1622 words · Ash Vardanian

2022  4

April  1

We went through life with a smile 💔

April 29, 2022 · 15 min · 3031 words · Ash Vardanian

March  1

Mastering C++ with Google Benchmark ⏱️

March 4, 2022 · 14 min · 2928 words · Ash Vardanian

January  2

Failing to Reach DDR4 Bandwidth 🚌

January 29, 2022 · 6 min · 1215 words · Ash Vardanian

Crushing CPUs with 879 GB/s Reductions in CUDA

January 28, 2022 · 10 min · 1996 words · Ash Vardanian

2021  3

December  2

Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs Intel 🍏

December 21, 2021 · 8 min · 1618 words · Ash Vardanian

Hyperscaler Shopping List: 2022 Data Center Tech Frenzy ☁️

December 7, 2021 · 15 min · 3003 words · Ash Vardanian

November  1

Only 1% of Software Benefits from SIMD Instructions

November 21, 2021 · 7 min · 1406 words · Ash Vardanian

2020  5

October  2

Artsakh Must Be Independent 🗺️

October 2, 2020 · 8 min · 1588 words · Ash Vardanian

The 7 Sins of Turkish Autocracy 🇹🇷

October 1, 2020 · 9 min · 1771 words · Ash Vardanian

September  1

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey. Who’s the Aggressor? ⚔️

September 27, 2020 · 2 min · 295 words · Ash Vardanian

August  1

Come to Armenia 🇦🇲

August 1, 2020 · 8 min · 1680 words · Ash Vardanian

March  1

Positive Outlook on the COVID-19 Crisis 😷

March 22, 2020 · 12 min · 2500 words · Ash Vardanian

2016  1

June  1

What’s Wrong with WWDC 2016 Keynote?

June 14, 2016 · 7 min · 1481 words · Ash Vardanian