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2026  5

April  2

The Kernel Tax: IPC Latency and the Cost of Boundary Crossings

April 20, 2026 · 15 min · Riyane El Qoqui

The Instruction Count Lie: Latency, Throughput, and the Dependency Graph

April 7, 2026 · 19 min · Riyane El Qoqui

March  1

The Invisible Lock: Cache Coherency and the Physics of False Sharing

March 26, 2026 · 13 min · Riyane El Qoqui

February  2

The O(1) Illusion: Why Pointer Chasing is the Death of Throughput

February 28, 2026 · 16 min · Riyane El Qoqui

The ‘If’ is an admission of failure: When algebra replaces decision

February 17, 2026 · 16 min · Riyane El Qoqui