Archive - Computer, Enhance!

Simplified Haversine Candidates

Even for a computation as simple as our haversine loop, removing waste yields a surprisingly large performance improvement for very little effort.

Jun 15

34:11

May 2025

Computer Enhance Summer News!

I certainly hope none of you were planning a summer vacation.

May 30 •

Q&A #76 (2025-05-23)

Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.

May 23

40:48

The Micro Group

The Complete History of Trinity - Episode 5

May 23 •

52:22

As we saw in the very beginning of the Performance Aware Programming series, a CPU can be brought to a crawl by drowning it in unnecessary work. How…

May 15

27:51

Our Very Own Haversine

We've built all the pieces - now it's time to assemble them into a haversine distance function that uses only math we've hand-coded ourselves so we can…

May 5

9:02

Q&A #75 (2025-05-02)

Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.

May 2

1:00:05

April 2025

March 2025

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