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The Art of Writing Efficient Programs

You're reading from   The Art of Writing Efficient Programs An advanced programmer's guide to efficient hardware utilization and compiler optimizations using C++ examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800208117
Length 464 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fedor G. Pikus Fedor G. Pikus
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Preface 1. Section 1 – Performance Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Performance and Concurrency FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Performance Measurements 4. Chapter 3: CPU Architecture, Resources, and Performance 5. Chapter 4: Memory Architecture and Performance 6. Chapter 5: Threads, Memory, and Concurrency 7. Section 2 – Advanced Concurrency
8. Chapter 6: Concurrency and Performance 9. Chapter 7: Data Structures for Concurrency 10. Chapter 8: Concurrency in C++ 11. Section 3 – Designing and Coding High-Performance Programs
12. Chapter 9: High-Performance C++ 13. Chapter 10: Compiler Optimizations in C++ 14. Chapter 11: Undefined Behavior and Performance 15. Chapter 12: Design for Performance 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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  1. What is the key to using the CPU resources efficiently?
  2. How can we use instruction-level parallelism to improve performance?
  3. How can the CPU execute computations in parallel if the latter one needs the results of the former one?
  4. Why are conditional branches much more expensive than simply the cost of evaluating a conditional expression?
  5. What is speculative execution?
  6. What optimization techniques are available to improve the effectiveness of pipelining in code with conditional computations?
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