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I am Sebastian Schöner, and you are most likely here because you enjoy programming as well.

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  • Unreasonable within reason

    Posted on August 29, 2025

    Over the years I have come to appreciate “unreasonable” coworkers. What a weird sentence to write, right? When it comes to programming, you are usually fairly well advised to be “reasonable.” For example, debugging is much more effective if you have a theory for why things are going wrong and... [Read More]

  • Does C compile faster than C++?

    Posted on August 13, 2025

    I recently found myself wondering whether it is faster to compile C than C++. On some level, the answer to this is an obvious “yes”: You can’t accidentally summon cthulhu SFINAE-thulhu in your C code, for example. [Read More]

  • Vector types and debug performance

    Posted on August 7, 2025

    For reasons, I have found myself writing a vector math library. Like Aras some time ago I’ve found an unpleasant surprise when looking at the debug performance of some vector types. [Read More]

  • How to speed up random memory accesses

    Posted on July 28, 2025

    At some point when optimizing software, you are left with a soup of pointers that you just have to dereference, even though you know that you are going to suffer a cache miss for every single read. Common knowledge suggests that you just should not read from random pointers in... [Read More]