Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)
Software Development, Algorithms & Data Structures, Performance Engineering(curiouscoding.nl)view on HackerNews
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Author: lalitmaganti
Date: 7/17/2026
Article Summary:
This article discusses the optimization of a static search tree (S-tree) for high-throughput searching of sorted data. The author implements various optimizations, including batching, prefetching, and manual SIMD instructions, to improve the performance of the S-tree.