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Systems programmingProgramming languagesC++Performance and optimizationAlgorithms
Andrei Alexandrescu presents optimization techniques for writing fast C++ code, focusing on the practical use of sentinels and search algorithms.
To some extent, optimization is to our industry what sexual intercourse is to teenagers. There’s a veil of awesomeness surrounding it; everybody thinks it’s cool, has an angle on it, and talks about it a great deal; yet in spite of ample folklore, few get to do it well, meaningfully, or at all. Improving the ordeals of teenage years being too large a project, the next best thing to do is teaching how to write fast code. So Andrei set out to write a book about it. This talk is a sneak preview into some of the book’s material.What people say. Highly recommended for its practical and deep dive into low-level code optimization techniques like using sentinels.
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