CppCon 2017: Chandler Carruth “Going Nowhere Faster”

Name: CppCon 2017: Chandler Carruth “Going Nowhere Faster”
Description: Chandler Carruth shows how to squeeze more performance out of already-optimized C++ code, covering how the CPU executes it. The talk goes into pipelining, branch prediction and speculative execution using benchmarks.

CppCon

Chandler Carruth shows how to squeeze more performance out of already-optimized C++ code, covering how the CPU executes it. The talk goes into pipelining, branch prediction and speculative execution using benchmarks.

Recommended as the best presentation on how modern CPUs run code, and why speculative execution matters for performance.

5 Hacker News mentions · 2017–2026

Topics

Software performance & optimization
C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages
Computer architecture & CPUs

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