Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

Software Development, Algorithms & Data Structures, Performance Engineering(curiouscoding.nl)view on HackerNews
static search treeS-treeoptimizationbatchingprefetchingSIMD instructions

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.