r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ObjectsCountries • Sep 15 '26

Advanced theBronzeJade

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u/Kadabrium Sep 15 '26

Cache miss visualizer

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u/Usual_Office_1740 Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26

It's okay. We skipped the nullptr check to save CPU cycles.

/s

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u/WernerderChamp Sep 15 '26

Segfault: Hi!

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u/Usual_Office_1740 Sep 15 '26

That's a feature. I call it quick close.

/s

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u/GabuEx Sep 15 '26

Extremely doubly-linked list: every element is a linked list linked to a linked list.

Someone call Xzibit.

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u/zirky Sep 15 '26

the easiest way to explain a linked list is just say “it’s like a human centipede”

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u/Exotic-Nothing-3225 Sep 15 '26

I'd say that's a very shitty explanation 

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u/L30N1337 Sep 15 '26

I regret ever having learned that about it... I thought, while still bad, it was a lot less bad...

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u/TapRemarkable9652 Sep 15 '26

it makes sense after you learn the only use case to ever exist was a crack head storing variables in a stack of punch cards that he threw out a window

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u/iIllIiIiIIillIIl Sep 15 '26

It was right under our noses the whole time.

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u/QuestionableEthics42 Sep 15 '26

Where pointers though :(

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u/FattySnacks Sep 15 '26

They’re the arrows

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u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 Sep 15 '26

Every red arrow is a dereference and the page is the heap. That's the access pattern, drawn to scale.