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Techniques · 25
Primitives · 82
ugc-game-platform
CDN and edge
cloud · medium: CDNs cache content in hundreds of PoPs near users, cutting latency and egress bills; edge compute runs small code there. Bandwidth price spreads 10x between providers.
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Hot reloading
compilers · medium: Replace code in a running process by swapping an indirection point, then migrate the live state to the new layout at a safe moment.
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Incremental and concurrent garbage…
compilers · medium: Trace the heap in small steps or on other threads while the program runs, and use barriers to keep the collector's view correct.
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Deterministic simulation testing
distributed · medium: Run the whole system in one thread under a seeded scheduler with simulated network, disk and clock, so every failure replays from its seed.
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Primary-backup replication
distributed · medium: One node orders all writes and ships them to standbys; the acknowledgement rule (none, one, all) sets what a crash loses, and an external arbiter decides who takes over.
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Authoritative server
game-networking · medium: One process owns the state and steps it at a fixed tick; clients send inputs and show returned snapshots, so a lying client only affects its own inputs.
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Client-side prediction
game-networking · medium: The client applies its own inputs immediately, then on each server state rewinds to it and replays unacknowledged inputs (reconciliation).
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Entity interpolation
game-networking · low: Render remote entities a fixed delay in the past, blending the two buffered snapshots around that time: ~2 snapshot intervals of latency buy smooth motion.
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Bytecode interpreter
compilers · low: Register/stack VM dispatch loop for executing compiled plans or rules (SQLite VDBE, nftables)
Instruction metering
compilers · low: Charge a fuel budget per instruction or per basic block and trap at zero, so untrusted code is bounded by work done, deterministically.
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Hdr histogram
data-structures · low: Log-linear bucketed histograms with bounded relative error for latency percentiles
Process supervision
hardware-os · low: A parent process starts services, reaps their exits and restarts them under a delay and burst-limit policy, then stops them with SIGTERM before SIGKILL.
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Perceptual hashing
search-sort · low: Compact fingerprints (64 to 256 bits) of an image that stay close under resizing and recompression, compared by Hamming distance; pHash, dHash and Meta's PDQ.
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Mutual TLS
security · low: TLS where the client also proves a certificate key, so every connection carries a verified, rotatable machine identity.
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Content-addressed storage
storage · low: Store each blob under the hash of its bytes: immutable, deduplicated by construction, self-verifying on every read, and composable into Merkle trees.
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Graceful draining
systems · low: On a termination signal, stop taking new work, finish in-flight work until a deadline, tell clients to reconnect elsewhere, then exit; clients resume from a token.
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HTTP caching semantics
networking · low: The rules (RFC 9111) that decide whether a stored response is still fresh, and how a cheap conditional request revalidates it when it is not.
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Module resolution
compilers · low: Resolve import specifiers to files: Node and ESM resolution, package exports, CJS interop
File system watching
hardware-os · low: Treat OS change notices as hints, debounce them, and rescan and diff a snapshot whenever notices overflow or may be lost.
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Mark-sweep garbage collection
compilers · low: Find everything reachable from the roots, free the rest in place; handles cycles, never moves objects, and is the base of most production collectors.
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Memory ordering
concurrency · low: What Relaxed, Acquire, Release and SeqCst atomics actually guarantee, what they cost on x86 and ARM, and which one each pattern needs.
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Cooperative scheduling
concurrency · low: Green threads/coroutines yielding at await points on a user-space scheduler
Record replay
distributed · low: Record every nondeterministic input (time, randomness, I/O, model and tool outputs, per-tick player input) and re-execute deterministically for debugging, replays and state rebuild
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System
Techniques · 25
Primitives · 82
ugc-game-platform
CDN and edge
cloud · medium: CDNs cache content in hundreds of PoPs near users, cutting latency and egress bills; edge compute runs small code there. Bandwidth price spreads 10x between providers.
›
Hot reloading
compilers · medium: Replace code in a running process by swapping an indirection point, then migrate the live state to the new layout at a safe moment.
›
Incremental and concurrent garbage…
compilers · medium: Trace the heap in small steps or on other threads while the program runs, and use barriers to keep the collector's view correct.
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Deterministic simulation testing
distributed · medium: Run the whole system in one thread under a seeded scheduler with simulated network, disk and clock, so every failure replays from its seed.
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Primary-backup replication
distributed · medium: One node orders all writes and ships them to standbys; the acknowledgement rule (none, one, all) sets what a crash loses, and an external arbiter decides who takes over.
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Authoritative server
game-networking · medium: One process owns the state and steps it at a fixed tick; clients send inputs and show returned snapshots, so a lying client only affects its own inputs.
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Client-side prediction
game-networking · medium: The client applies its own inputs immediately, then on each server state rewinds to it and replays unacknowledged inputs (reconciliation).
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Interest management
game-networking · medium: Send each client only the entities relevant to it (spatial area of interest, visibility, team), ordered by priority accumulators to fit a per-packet byte budget.
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Asset streaming priority
graphics · medium: Prioritized async loading of assets by distance and visibility under a memory budget with eviction
Pairing queue
optimization · medium: Pair waiting players into fair matches by rating and latency, widening tolerances the longer each ticket waits
Sequential impulse solver
physics · medium: Iterative contact solver applying impulses one constraint at a time with accumulated clamping and warm starting; the standard solver for stacking and friction in real-time physics engines.
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Coverage-guided fuzzing
security · medium: Mutate inputs, run an instrumented target, and keep any input that reaches a new code edge; feedback turns blind guessing into incremental search.
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Process sandboxing
security · medium: Run risky work in a separate, deliberately powerless process and let a small privileged broker do the few things it needs, over a narrow pipe.
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Point-in-time recovery
storage · medium: Periodic base backups plus a continuously archived change log let you rebuild the state as of any instant, then branch from there.
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Delta debugging
compilers · medium: Ddmin minimization of failing inputs or change sets
Linking and relocation
compilers · medium: The linker merges object files, matches each undefined name to one definition, assigns addresses and patches every recorded reference (relocation); dynamic linking defers part of that to load time.
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Stack unwinding
compilers · medium: Frame-pointer, DWARF CFI and compact unwinding of call stacks
Fault injection
distributed · medium: Inject latency, errors, kills and partitions via proxies, netem or hooks
Contact manifold generation
physics · medium: Build persistent contact point sets from collision normals by clipping, with feature IDs for warm starts
TLS 1.3
security · medium: The standard encrypted, authenticated transport; one round trip, only forward-secret AEAD suites, and little left to misconfigure.
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ARIES recovery
storage · medium: Three-pass crash recovery (analysis, redo, undo) for steal/no-force buffer pools; repeats history, then rolls back losers with compensation log records.
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Debug info (DWARF)
compilers · medium: DWARF stores a tree of typed entries (DIEs), a line-number bytecode, unwind tables and location expressions that map machine state back to source; pick it for ELF/Mach-O debug builds.
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Polygon clipping
geometry · medium: Polygon intersection/union/difference (Weiler-Atherton, Martinez) for spatial predicates
Syscall interception
security · medium: Intercept syscalls via ptrace, seccomp user notify or a user-space kernel
Buffer pool
storage · medium: The database's own page cache (frames, page table, pin counts, dirty bits, replacement) so it, not the OS, controls eviction, write order and I/O.
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Entity interpolation
game-networking · low: Render remote entities a fixed delay in the past, blending the two buffered snapshots around that time: ~2 snapshot intervals of latency buy smooth motion.
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Bytecode interpreter
compilers · low: Register/stack VM dispatch loop for executing compiled plans or rules (SQLite VDBE, nftables)
Instruction metering
compilers · low: Charge a fuel budget per instruction or per basic block and trap at zero, so untrusted code is bounded by work done, deterministically.
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Hdr histogram
data-structures · low: Log-linear bucketed histograms with bounded relative error for latency percentiles
Process supervision
hardware-os · low: A parent process starts services, reaps their exits and restarts them under a delay and burst-limit policy, then stops them with SIGTERM before SIGKILL.
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Perceptual hashing
search-sort · low: Compact fingerprints (64 to 256 bits) of an image that stay close under resizing and recompression, compared by Hamming distance; pHash, dHash and Meta's PDQ.
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Mutual TLS
security · low: TLS where the client also proves a certificate key, so every connection carries a verified, rotatable machine identity.
›
Content-addressed storage
storage · low: Store each blob under the hash of its bytes: immutable, deduplicated by construction, self-verifying on every read, and composable into Merkle trees.
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Graceful draining
systems · low: On a termination signal, stop taking new work, finish in-flight work until a deadline, tell clients to reconnect elsewhere, then exit; clients resume from a token.
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HTTP caching semantics
networking · low: The rules (RFC 9111) that decide whether a stored response is still fresh, and how a cheap conditional request revalidates it when it is not.
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Module resolution
compilers · low: Resolve import specifiers to files: Node and ESM resolution, package exports, CJS interop
File system watching
hardware-os · low: Treat OS change notices as hints, debounce them, and rescan and diff a snapshot whenever notices overflow or may be lost.
›
Mark-sweep garbage collection
compilers · low: Find everything reachable from the roots, free the rest in place; handles cycles, never moves objects, and is the base of most production collectors.
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Memory ordering
concurrency · low: What Relaxed, Acquire, Release and SeqCst atomics actually guarantee, what they cost on x86 and ARM, and which one each pattern needs.
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Cooperative scheduling
concurrency · low: Green threads/coroutines yielding at await points on a user-space scheduler
Record replay
distributed · low: Record every nondeterministic input (time, randomness, I/O, model and tool outputs, per-tick player input) and re-execute deterministically for debugging, replays and state rebuild
PRNGs (PCG, xoshiro)
numerics · low: Small, fast, statistically strong non-cryptographic generators: PCG32 and xoshiro256**, with seeding, parallel streams and unbiased ranges.
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Leases
distributed · low: A lock that expires on its own: bounded-time ownership that survives crashes and partitions, given bounded clock drift and fencing tokens on writes.
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Write-ahead log
storage · low: Append each change to a checksummed sequential log and fsync it before touching data pages; the basis of crash durability in nearly every database.
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Health checking
systems · low: Decide per backend whether to route to it using probes and real-traffic errors, with consecutive-count hysteresis, capped ejection and a panic fallback.
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Bitstream serialization
game-networking · low: A bit writer and reader over a byte buffer that stores each field in exactly the bits its range needs: booleans in 1 bit, bounded integers in ceil(log2(span+1)) bits.
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Reliable UDP
game-networking · low: Transport over UDP: each packet carries a sequence number, an ack and a 32-bit ack history; only chosen messages are made reliable.
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Snapshot delta compression
game-networking · low: Encode each client's snapshot as the difference from the last snapshot that client acknowledged, so unchanged entities and fields cost zero to a few bits.
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State quantization
game-networking · low: Store floats as small fixed-point integers sized to the precision needed (bounded positions, smallest-three quaternions), cutting size 2-4x before any delta coding.
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Fixed timestep loop
graphics · low: Fixed simulation dt with accumulator, render interpolation, spiral-of-death guard
Message sequence numbers
distributed · low: A per-stream counter on every message lets the receiver detect loss, duplicates and reordering, ack cheaply and resume after reconnect with "send from N".
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d-ary heap
data-structures · low: Array heap with d children per node (d = 4 typical): half the binary heap's depth, siblings in one cache line, faster priority queues.
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Quadtree octree
geometry · low: Adaptive spatial subdivision trees for queries and level of detail; loose and linear variants
Spatial hashing
physics · low: Uniform grid stored in a hash table: bucket objects by cell, test only neighbouring cells; O(n) neighbour search for many similar-sized objects such as particles.
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Buffer pools for zero-allocation I/O
hardware-os · low: Preallocate a fixed set of aligned I/O buffers and recycle them through a free list, so the hot path never mallocs, faults or unmaps. The bounded count doubles as back pressure.
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LRU and CLOCK
systems · low: LRU evicts the least recently used entry via hash map plus linked list; CLOCK approximates it with a reference bit, so hits take no lock.
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Elo rating
game-networking · low: One number per competitor, moved by K × (actual − expected score) after each pairwise result; expected score is logistic in the rating difference.
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Glicko-2
game-networking · low: Rating plus rating deviation (RD) and volatility per player, so new or inactive players move fast and established ones move slowly.
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Rigid-body dynamics
physics · low: Advance one 3D rigid body per step from force and torque: semi-implicit Euler for position, an inertia tensor in the body frame, and quaternion orientation updated by the exponential map.
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Simulation islands sleeping
physics · low: Group touching bodies into islands, solve them independently and put resting islands to sleep
Code coverage instrumentation
compilers · low: Insert counters into compiled code to record which blocks, edges or lines ran; a spanning tree of the control-flow graph cuts the counters needed.
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Fast hash functions
data-structures · low: Non-cryptographic hashes built from 64×64→128-bit multiplies and xor-shifts; pick by key size, trust level and whether the hash is persisted.
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Sanitizers
security · low: ASan/UBSan/TSan shadow memory and instrumentation to catch memory bugs
Cgroups and namespaces
hardware-os · low: Linux namespaces limit what a process can see; cgroup v2 limits and accounts what it may use. Containers, sandboxes and job schedulers are built from the two.
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Overlay filesystem
hardware-os · low: Union mounts (overlayfs) stacking read-only layers under a writable layer
Least privilege and isolation
security · low: Assume every component will be compromised and limit what it can then reach: narrow identities, separate accounts, sandboxed processes.
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Seccomp bpf
security · low: Syscall filtering with seccomp BPF programs
Object storage
cloud · low: S3-compatible blob storage at cents per GB-month with 11 nines durability; pick by egress price, request price and latency, not by storage price alone.
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Copy on write snapshots
storage · low: Point-in-time snapshots by sharing pages/extents and copying only on write
Failure bisection
search-sort · low: Binary search over commits, batches or inputs to isolate a failure
Executable formats elf pe
compilers · low: ELF, PE and Mach-O: sections, segments, symbol tables, relocations, dynamic loading
String interning
data-structures · low: Store each distinct string once and refer to it by id
Swiss table
data-structures · low: Open-addressing hash table that filters 8-16 slots at once with 1-byte hash tags and SIMD, giving fast lookups at 87.5 % load.
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mmap and the page cache
hardware-os · low: How read() and mmap reach file data through the kernel page cache, what readahead and madvise do, and why databases use their own buffer pool instead.
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Calling conventions abi
compilers · low: System V, Windows x64 and AAPCS64 ABIs: argument registers, stack frames, struct passing, FFI
Transparent interception
networking · low: Redirect traffic to a local proxy (iptables TPROXY/REDIRECT, eBPF) without app changes
GJK and EPA
physics · low: GJK decides whether (and how far apart) two convex shapes are from their support functions alone; EPA expands its simplex into penetration depth and normal.
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Separating axis theorem
physics · low: Convex shapes are disjoint iff some axis separates their projections; testing face normals and edge crosses gives overlap, depth and contact normal.
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AEAD (AES-GCM, ChaCha20-Poly1305)
security · low: Authenticated encryption that encrypts and detects tampering in one call; the only kind of symmetric encryption you should use.
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Cryptographic hashes (SHA-2, BLAKE3)
security · low: Collision-resistant fingerprints of data; SHA-256 for interoperability, BLAKE3 for speed, HMAC/HKDF for keyed uses.
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ECDH key exchange (X25519, P-256)
security · low: Each side multiplies the other's public curve point by its own scalar and both get the same point; always validate the peer key and run the result through a KDF.
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HKDF key derivation (extract-and-ex…
security · low: HMAC-based two-step key derivation: extract a uniform pseudorandom key from any secret, then expand it into as many context-bound keys as you need.
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X509 certificates
security · low: Certificate chains, path validation, SANs, revocation and short-lived issuance
Varint (LEB128)
compression · low: Variable-length integers in 7-bit groups with a continuation bit; small numbers take 1 byte, the wire format of Protobuf, WebAssembly and DWARF.
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Exact geometric predicates
geometry · low: Robust orient and incircle tests with adaptive-precision floats (Shewchuk) or exact arithmetic
Point in polygon
geometry · low: Ray-casting/winding tests and indexed polygon lookup for reverse geocoding
Ebpf
hardware-os · low: Verified in-kernel programs on hooks (kprobes, XDP, tc) with maps
Ptrace process control
hardware-os · low: Ptrace: attach, read and write registers and memory, single-step, intercept signals
fsync, O_DSYNC and O_DIRECT
hardware-os · low: What fsync, fdatasync, O_DSYNC, O_DIRECT and F_FULLFSYNC really guarantee on Linux and macOS, and the exact call sequences for crash-safe files.
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S3-FIFO
systems · low: Three FIFO queues (small, main, ghost) that evict one-hit wonders quickly and keep reused objects; low miss ratios with no list moves on hits.
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Control-flow graph
compilers · low: Split a linear instruction list into basic blocks and connect them by jumps; the graph every optimizer, SSA builder and dataflow pass walks.
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Merkle dag
data-structures · low: Content-addressed DAG of hashed nodes (git trees/commits) for dedupe and verifiable history
Fencing tokens
distributed · low: A number that grows with every lock grant and is checked by the protected resource, so a paused ex-holder's late write is rejected.
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Quaternion rotations
geometry · low: Unit quaternions as 3D rotations: 4 floats, cheap composition, no gimbal lock, plus the conversions, interpolation choices and numerical care needed in practice.
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BFS and DFS
graphs · low: The two basic graph traversals; BFS gives hop distances and levels, DFS gives discovery/finish order for cycles, components and topological order.
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Minimum spanning tree
graphs · low: Cheapest set of edges connecting all vertices; Kruskal sorts edges and joins components with union-find, Prim grows one tree, Boruvka merges in parallel rounds.
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Union-find
graphs · low: Disjoint-set forest with union by size and path compression; merges sets and answers same-set queries in effectively constant time.
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Atomic file replacement
hardware-os · low: Write temp file, fsync, rename over target, fsync directory: crash-safe whole-file updates
CRC32C checksums
hardware-os · low: The Castagnoli CRC-32 with dedicated instructions on x86 (SSE4.2) and ARMv8. It is the standard fast integrity check for storage blocks, logs and network frames.
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SIMD programming
hardware-os · low: Process 4-16 lanes per instruction with AVX2, AVX-512 or NEON via Rust std::arch, with runtime dispatch and a portable fallback.
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Virtual memory and the TLB
hardware-os · low: How page tables and TLBs translate every address, what TLB reach means, and when 2 MiB or 1 GiB huge pages pay off on Linux.
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Semi-implicit Euler
numerics · low: Update velocity from forces first, then position with the new velocity: explicit Euler cost, but symplectic and stable; the default game-physics integrator.
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Sparse matrices (CSR)
numerics · low: Compressed sparse row stores only nonzeros as row pointers, column indices and values; SpMV streams them once, so it is memory-bandwidth bound.
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Parallel prefix sum
search-sort · low: Work-efficient scan (Blelloch, decoupled look-back) on CPU SIMD and GPUs; stream compaction
Constant time code
security · low: Writing secret-dependent code without branches or memory lookups on secrets; constant-time compare and select
Csprng
security · low: OS-backed cryptographically secure random numbers (getrandom), and when a fast PRNG is not enough
Slab allocator
systems · low: Pre-carve pages into equal-size slots per size class with an in-place free list: O(1) alloc and free, no external fragmentation, cache-warm reuse.
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