Stratum: Architecting a Configurable Cache Simulator with C++ and Racket

The Interview That Changed Everything During a recent interview, the conversation started well. The interviewer asked about my open-source contribution to rv32emu —specifically, how I achieved 52% faster lookups and 35% faster insertions in the red-black tree implementation ( commit 434c466 ). My brain immediately started searching for the answer from /memory/—both the biological kind and the DRAM…