Mechanical sympathy is the practice of writing software that works with hardware rather than against it. Four core principles are covered: predictable sequential memory access (which leverages CPU prefetching), cache line awareness and false sharing (padding variables to avoid contention between threads), the single-writer
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Not-So-Random Memory AccessCache Lines and False SharingThe Single Writer PrincipleNatural BatchingNatural vs. Smart BatchingSort: