These are old, but great. Drepper's history with glibc is a little checkered, but his whitepapers (there's an equally great one on the NPTL work from back when that was being done in glibc) are gold.
Understanding the DRAM cycle is critical to performance tuning in modern code, and my experience is that virtually no application developers know how it works.
Understanding the DRAM cycle is critical to performance tuning in modern code, and my experience is that virtually no application developers know how it works.