Elegant C

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...

Since I am already excited about some of the features of the new Haswell family, it was great to see an even deeper look into microarchitect...

In the process of grading student programming projects, I discovered that whitespace can matter in how C code is compiled.  Some programmers...

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

It was some years ago that I sat in the audience and heard AMD present a sketch for how transactional memory (TM) would be implemented in th...

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