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performance
- Jun 6, 2026 Histogram Split Finding and the Weighted Quantile Sketch Binning a feature into a few hundred buckets turns repeated per-node sorts into linear passes, and choosing the boundaries by weighted quantiles keeps the buckets where the data actually is. machine learning
- Apr 4, 2025 Queueing Bounds as a Deployment Design Test Using Little's law, utilization curves, and the Kingman approximation to decide whether a proposed deployment can meet a latency scenario before anything is built. software architecture
- Jun 11, 2024 The Runtime Cost of Indirection at Module Boundaries A cost model for boundary crossings: what inlining loses, what a virtual call and a cache miss actually cost, and when a coarse-grained interface beats a clean one. software architecture