Patrick Schittekat’s NDC TechTown 2025 session tears down all the niceties—high-level languages, containers and fancy frameworks—and dives straight into the heart of your x86 CPU. With decades of hidden quirks and partially documented features, he shows you how hands-on reverse engineering can uncover those secret performance boosts you’ve been missing.
By stripping away abstraction layers, you’ll learn practical techniques to squeeze every last CPU cycle out of your code. And while the demo focuses on an x86 chip, the fun and insights you pick up are totally transferrable to any processor architecture.
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