A Software Engineer's Guide to Reading Research Papers

Modern software development has created a paradox: we build increasingly complex systems, yet fewer engineers understand how these systems work under the hood.

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I hope you enjoyed the recent article on how Unix spell was designed to lookup a 250kB dictionary on a 64kB machine. Writing it wore me down.

How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.

How does the Linux kernel represent processes and their state: A breakdown of task_struct and mm_struct