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'Fastware' - Andrei Alexandrescu [ ACCU 2016 ]

ACCU Conference · talk · Watch on YouTube

Software performance & optimizationC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesAlgorithms & data structures

What it is

Andrei Alexandrescu's ACCU 2016 talk previews material from his book on writing fast code, with a focus on optimization techniques such as sentinels and faster search.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a careful, entertaining talk on low-level optimization that shows how textbook algorithms can be sped up.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “If you’re skeptical, I really do encourage you to watch, he’s not sloppy.”

    How sentinels speed up textbook algorithms and how to apply them sensibly

    dundarious, 2020-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Sentinels Can Be Faster”

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Topics: andrei alexandrescu, optimization, c++, sentinels, performance

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