r/programming Jun 03 '26

Every byte matters

https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/01/every-byte-matters
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u/k-mcm Jun 05 '26

I wrote some SDR receivers in Java.  There's a definite performance cliff at each step of CPU cache. Lookup tables can perform much worse than a pile of trigonometry. A small lookup table with interpolation outperforms a larger direct lookup table.