Reading this would actually tremendously help software engineers improve their concurrent/parallel software design skills as well. I never had a particular desi

Reading this would actually tremendously help software engineers improve their concurrent/parallel software design skills as well. I never had a particular desire to do hardware (my degree is CS) but some of the best C/C++ programmers who were able to squeeze out every last ounce of performance truly understood not just software languages but also computer architecture and I might even go as far as saying understood physics to a large extent very well. The LMAX software architecture is a product of this kind of hardware+software understanding. Awesome article.