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Monday, September 23, 2013

Book Review: Turing's Cathedral

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Recently, I read the work of history, Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (Vintage) , which is an interesting book t...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Repost: There's nothing like a tidy codebase

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When I grade student assignments, around 90% of the grade is for what the code does.  The other 10% is for how it looks, because There's...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Review: Patterns for Cache Optimizations on Multi-processor Machines (ParaPLoP '10)

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In order to optimize any code, know that the optimizations "depend on the exact architecture of the machine (processor, memory, etc), t...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Book Review: Exceptional C++ Style 40 New Engineering Puzzles, ...

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Generally, I do not write code in C++; however, on occasion (like when writing LLVM compiler passes), I am forced into using this language. ...
Friday, June 21, 2013

What is Time: Keeping Time in Software

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In a prior post, Measuring Performance , I discussed some techniques for how a developer might measure the performance of his or her applica...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Atomics versus Locks

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I've written in the past about using intrinsics to improve performance.  And I've discussed using this functionality to build your o...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

More on Haswell

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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...