Simple Code, High Performance
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Casey Muratori's University of Twente guest lecture is a case study in how straightforward code can cut thousands of lines and tens of seconds of runtime down to a few dozen lines running in under a second. It uses concrete examples to show why software is often an order of magnitude slower than it should be.
Why HN recommends it: HN people recommend it to anyone wanting a practical sense of what CPUs can really do and why abstraction layers cost so much performance.
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