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CPU Ticks and Vim Performance CPU ticks are the heartbeat of your computer. Understanding how they work is crucial for understanding why Vim is so fast and why other editors are slow. What is a CPU Tick? The Clock Cycle 1 2 3 4 5 // Every CPU instruction takes a certain number of clock cycles mov eax, 1 // 1 clock cycle add eax, ebx // 1 clock cycle cmp eax, 0 // 1 clock cycle jne loop_start // 1-3 clock cycles (branch prediction) A CPU tick is one clock cycle of the processor. Modern CPUs run at billions of ticks per second (GHz). ...

Why Windows NT Kernel is Fundamentally Broken Let’s talk about the elephant in the room: the Windows NT kernel is fundamentally broken. Not just “different”—broken. The Architecture Nightmare Monolithic Design with Microkernel Pretensions The NT kernel tries to be both monolithic and microkernel. It fails at both: Performance: Too many layers of abstraction Reliability: Single points of failure everywhere Security: Privilege escalation vulnerabilities built-in Maintainability: Spaghetti code that nobody understands Registry: The Worst Design Decision Ever 1 2 // This is how Windows stores configuration HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Compare to Linux: ...