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Plenary: Performance Matters - Emery Berger - CppCon 2020
Emery Berger's CppCon 2020 plenary on why performance is hard on modern hardware after the end of Dennard scaling. It covers benchmarking pitfalls and introduces new profiling tools for finding real bottlenecks.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended for treating benchmarking and profiling scientifically rather than by myth, with innovative tools.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- CppCon
- Topic
- performance measurement
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2022
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This guy has had a few talks at CppCon over the years, and covers the basics of how to attempt benchmarking with actual computer science instead of myth and voodoo rituals: [VIDEO] In practice, it's not critical to go that far. In my experience, huge …
jiggawatts on Hacker News · 2021-06
In Beware of Tight Feedback Loops (2020)The term you're looking for might be "abstraction penalty". For tools that can identify where the bottlenecks are, I recommend watching Emery Berger's talk "Performance Matters" from CppCon 2020 (either of the two links below should work). He introduces some innovative new profiling tools for …
captaincrowbar on Hacker News · 2022-01
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