[pennaMan]

What are some good resources to learn about bits?

[jeffreygoesto]

There are some quite good pages, I don't remember the exact titles, but the first results are quite ok: https://www.google.de/search?q=bit%20hacks

[bitexploder]

You can write mostly C code. Each processor will have different quirks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache

https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf

These are great places to start.

Especially Ulrich Drepper's PDF on memory.

edit: even simple things like looping can require knowledge of "bits" and "memory layout" and "CPU cache" to write the fastest code. Most people don't need to write the fastest code though.