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

To get the most out of this book

The book, except the chapters specific to C++ efficiency, does not rely on any esoteric C++ knowledge. All examples are in C++, but the lessons on hardware performance, efficient data structures, and design for performance apply to any programming language. To follow the examples, you will need at least an intermediate knowledge of C++.

Each chapter mentions the additional software you need to compile and execute the examples, if any. For the most part, any modern C++ compiler can be used with the examples, except for Chapter 8, Concurrency in C++, which requires the latest versions to work through the section on coroutines.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book's GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.