Elegant C

It is the end of the semester, so time for posters about student projects.  I visited two sessions so far with three more to go.  I specific...

I have been listening to the Dungeon Hacks audiobook , and it has both reminded of my past joys of playing Angband , as well as some interes...

Today I went to  Timothy Zhu 's PhD thesis defense.  His work is on achieving better sharing of data center resources to improve perform...

I have spent significant time on performance issues and have been in search of a book that can summarize the diversity of issues and techniq...

I previously speculated about how Intel's TSX is implemented ; however, I did not have access to any machines supporting TSX until this ...

In a recent post , another blogger related how a simple attempt to improve performance nearly spiraled out of control.  The lesson is that a...

Kenneth Czechowski defended his dissertation work this week. He is trying to develop a science to the normal art of diagnosing low-level pe...

At SIGCSE this year, I spoke with several publishers about possible textbooks.  Primarily, for ones that would work in the different classes...

Compiler optimizations matter.  One time in helping a fellow Ph.D. student improve a simulator's performance, I did two things: first, I...

(contains Amazon affiliate link) I recently found, The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) , sitting on ...

In order to optimize any code, know that the optimizations "depend on the exact architecture of the machine (processor, memory, etc), t...

In a prior post, Measuring Performance , I discussed some techniques for how a developer might measure the performance of his or her applica...

I've written in the past about using intrinsics to improve performance.  And I've discussed using this functionality to build your o...

As a computer architect, I like to think that the hardware abstraction is generally opaque.  If a programmer really needs performance or cer...

When cooperating on a prior work of research, Brainy: effective selection of data structures , I learned about the cost of selecting particu...

I once was working on some performance analysis and came to the developers asking how their code was consuming a disproportionate amount of ...

Starting with a primer of Understanding processing time , let's delve into some methods for how we might measure the performance of soft...

How often do you have to write a loop to read a file? Do you issue fscanf, fread, or perhaps create a stream via some object-oriented langu...

Performance is a Feature discusses recent performance work for the site, stackoverflow.  I found the post interesting, albeit somewhat remo...

Being a performance engineer, I always appreciate when others give solid guidance for how to write performant code.  One such work is Perfor...