I was competing in the Jump Trading programming competition and thought I had a pretty good implementation in AVX asm, but I was still behind one of their engin

I was competing in the Jump Trading programming competition and thought I had a pretty good implementation in AVX asm, but I was still behind one of their engineers, so I asked him after the competition. Turns out he was a Linux kernel committer and wrote a process to spawn multiple threads by copying itself, modifying the parameters, and then setting the offsets directly in the thread table, avoiding all mallocs and thread startup. So basically, his math code was just basic C loops, but his process was complete before my threads even finished allocation. Forgive me if I got it wrong, I am definitely not a Linux kernel committer.