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HN recommends it as an eye-opening primer on benchmarking and performance analysis, especially for people who have not benchmarked on Linux.
Chandler Carruth walks through tuning C++ performance, from writing benchmarks to analyzing results on real CPUs and compilers. It focuses on small-scale problems such as loop kernels, data structures and algorithms, and on keeping compilers from optimizing benchmarks away.
“Optimizing the Emergent Structures of C++” (HN, 2016)
Here's a few: - "Tuning C++: Benchmarks, and CPUs, and Compilers! Oh My!" [this video] - "Understanding Compiler Optimization" [link] - "Optimizing the Emergent Structures of C++" [link] - "Efficiency with Algorithms" [link] The first one is really good if you've never benchmarked anything in a Linux environment. Or if you otherwise want to learn how to investigate how C++ gets turned into machine code.
Teaches benchmarking on Linux and how C++ becomes machine code.
Interestingly, there's quite a bit that's needed to ensure you bypass some compiler optimizations. Here's an ey-opening (for me) talk[1] on benchmarking C++ and compilers which touched on it. 1: [this video]
Eye-opening talk on benchmarking C++ and bypassing compiler optimizations.
> Anecdote: Optimum C blew away all the other C compilers on a magazine benchmark article because it figured out that the benchmark code did nothing and deleted it. I remember this problem being discussed in a CPPCon talk a few years ago, and some ways to "trick" the (modern) compilers into not optimising away the benchmark code - I think it was Chandler Carruth's "Tuning C++" talk: [this video]
Talk on benchmarking pitfalls and stopping compilers optimizing benchmark code away
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