Curiosity

A collection of short programs written to get some insights.

1. pipe_read_write.cpp

Found out that a process can write something and then read the same from a pipe.

2. sizeof.c

When is sizeof computed - compile time or runtime? What about VLAs?

3. branch_prediction.cpp

Demonstrates performance penalty for bad branch prediction.

4. huge_malloc.c

Learnt that linux does lazy allocation.