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Don’t read your data from a straw

Daniel Lemire

Data structures like indexes can be saved to disk or transmitted over the network in such a form. It is common for binary data to be serialized to bytes. Many serialized data structures can be viewed as sets of ‘integer’ values. That is the case, for example, of a Roaring bitmap. We must then read back this data.

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Three Other Models of Computer System Performance: Part 1

ACM Sigarch

an instruction or network transaction). These models are useful for insight regarding the basic computer system performance metrics of latency and throughput (bandwidth). Recall that latency —in units of time—is the time it takes to do a task (e.g.,

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