Pearce (surname)

Pearce is a surname, from knights of the Norman lord Mansfield prior to the invasion of England. It derives etymologically from the Germanic word to pierce, and was a name commonly given to warrior caste in Saxon/Jute, p-celtic and oil languages. Another etymology is from Piers, the medieval vernacular form of Peter, and may refer to:

People

Fictional characters
  • Aiden Pearce, from the video game Watch Dogs
  • Harry Pearce, from the British television series Spooks
  • Lola Pearce, from the British soap opera EastEnders
  • Melissa Pearce, from the Japanese novel Parasite Eve
  • Mickey Pearce, from the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses
  • Phil Pearce, from the British soap opera Emmerdale Farm
  • Ruth Pearce, from the British soap opera Doctors
gollark: Wrong. The ISA is old, but the microarchitectures of high-performant x86 CPUs are absolutely not ancient. They internally do a ton of optimization tricks to pretend to execute code in order with flat undifferentiated memory as fast as possible, even though the CPU is executing things out of order and aggressively caching and prefetching.
gollark: However, you can just not use it and will probably save a lot of time and segfaults.
gollark: Performant because it contorted the design of all modern CPUs to fit its model, useful because all the low-level APIs use it.
gollark: You will spend too much time on annoying memory things.
gollark: Not C or C++. Do NOT use C derivatives.

See also
  • Justice Pearce (disambiguation)
  • Pearse
  • Pierce (disambiguation)
  • Peirce
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