CppCon
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1:29:54 · 188K views · Sep 27, 2015
Chandler Carruth walks through tuning C++ performance, from writing benchmarks to analyzing results on real CPUs and compilers. It focuses on small-scale problems such as loop kernels, data structures and algorithms, and on keeping compilers from optimizing benchmarks away.
HN recommends it as an eye-opening primer on benchmarking and performance analysis, especially for people who have not benchmarked on Linux.
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Here's a few: - "Tuning C++: Benchmarks, and CPUs, and Compilers! Oh My!" this video - "Understanding Compiler Optimization" [LINK] - "Optimizing the Emergent Structures of C++" [LINK] - "Efficiency with Algorithms" [LINK] The first one is really good if you've never benchmarked anything in a Linux environment. Or if you otherwise want to learn how to investigate how C++ gets turned into machine code.
Interestingly, there's quite a bit that's needed to ensure you bypass some compiler optimizations. Here's an ey-opening (for me) talk[1] on benchmarking C++ and compilers which touched on it. 1: this video
There is a very interesting talk [1] by Chandler Carruth that I stumbled upon last weekend that is very much related to this [1] this video
> Anecdote: Optimum C blew away all the other C compilers on a magazine benchmark article because it figured out that the benchmark code did nothing and deleted it. I remember this problem being discussed in a CPPCon talk a few years ago, and some ways to "trick" the (modern) compilers into not optimising away the benchmark code - I think it was Chandler Carruth's "Tuning C++" talk: this video