Introduction and welcome

Hello, world.

This is my blog where I will talk about things that interest me (and a no doubt small collection of others). Topics that I’m interested in include:

• Low-level and performance-oriented programming
• Computer architecture (especially as it related to performance-oriented code)
• Programming languages
• Regular expression implementation and automata theory
• … and of course, implementing things without branches! Thus the name.

I was the designer of the Hyperscan project. I built this system at Sensory Networks, which was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2013, and worked on Hyperscan at Intel for over 4 years.

I hope that I can show you some interesting things. I have a few things in the pipeline that I will show shortly, including some string matching work, fast Random Forest implementation and a lot of my favorite low-level coding tips and tricks.

I request that my readers can bear with me and forgive the (hopefully temporary) amateurish nature of the site; I am not an expert blogger or user of WordPress.