All hail the speed demons (O'Reillynet)
What I find so interesting about Waldo's, Federico's and Michael's work is that they are playing with something of a black-art. Performance optimisation is something that not only requires an expansive knowledge of how software is built and represented in memory, but also how to optimise code and the way code is interpreted."
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