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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800208117

Length 464 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Cmake

Concepts

High Performance Programming

Author (1):

Fedor G. Pikus

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

Section 1 – Performance Fundamentals

In this section, you will learn about the methodology for studying the performance of programs, which is based on measurements, benchmarking, and profiling. You will also study the main hardware components that determine the performance of each computing system: the processors, the memory, and their interactions.

This section comprises the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Introduction to Performance and Concurrency
Chapter 2, Performance Measurements
Chapter 3, CPU Architecture, Resources, and Performance Implications
Chapter 4, Memory Architecture and Performance
Chapter 5, Threads, Memory, and Concurrency

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Authors (1)

Fedor G. Pikus

Fedor G. Pikus

Fedor G. Pikus is a Technical Fellow and head of the Advanced Projects Team in Siemens Digital Industries Software. His responsibilities include planning the long-term technical direction of Calibre products, directing and training the engineers who work on these products, design, and architecture of the software, and researching new design and software technologies. His earlier positions included a Chief Scientist at Mentor Graphics (acquired by Siemens Software), a Senior Software Engineer at Google, and a Chief Software Architect for Calibre Design Solutions at Mentor Graphics. He joined Mentor Graphics in 1998 when he made a switch from academic research in computational physics to the software industry. Fedor is a recognized expert in high-performance computing and C++. He is the author of two books on C++ and software design, has presented his works at CPPNow, CPPCon, SD West, DesignCon, and in software development journals, and is also an O'Reilly author. Fedor has over 30 patents and over 100 papers and conference presentations on physics, EDA, software design, and C++ language.

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