5/2     How do I get the L1/L2 cache size and cache line size on my machine?
        Can I find this stuff out at compile time somehow?
        \_ You aren't planning on running your code on any other processors?
        \_ May I ask what it is you want to achieve ultimately? If you don't
           know your architecture and want to find out dynamically, there are
           tools that can peek/poke to give you definitive answers, plus you get
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2/2     Is it just my imagination, or it seems like web sites these days
        are taking longer and longer to load? I used to be able to load
        http://weather.com in less than 1 second, now it takes 5-6 seconds.
        Ditto with http://cnn.com or other common sites.
        \_ Ditto with Yahoo Maps.
        \_ one word: flash
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7/15    I am curious how various employers rate job performance for SAs,
        S/W engineers, and similar. Lines of code, bugs fixed, bugs
        introduced, speed, optimization, and so on all have various
        problems. Is it mostly by a gut feeling or are there good metrics
        that can be applied? Similarly, how does one determine how many
        SAs, S/W engineers, and such it might take to complete a given
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5/6     (Not a homework question)  You have a horizontal gap of length L and
        \_ bullshit.
           \_ double-bullshit.   I made a paperclip chain and am curious how
              to most easily drape it (and I'm a big nerd).
        a rope/chain/cable with mass per unit length w, and there is vertical
        gravity of acceleration g.  What length of cord should you use to
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12/7    Optimization time: gprof shows 310k calls to a certain constructor
        (a very simple, very important object that is often stack-allocated
        into large arrays- eg "MyObject msgs[1000];").  Rather than calling
        the constructor 1000 times, is there a way to have a special array ctor
        that's called (once) and zeroes out the array en masse?  TIA.
        \_ Geezus, why are you constructing 310k objects? Make a static array
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