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Software Optimization Cookbook: High-Performance Recipes for the Intel Architecture
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by Richard Gerber
Sales Rank: 498249
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$12.00
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Paperback: 250 pages
Publisher: Intel Press; Pap/Cdr edition March 20, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0971288712
ISBN-13: 978-0971288713
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Book Description
Revealing the secrets of the software tuning process, The Software Optimization Cookbook provides recipes for high-performance applications on the Intel® Pentium® III and Pentium® 4 processors. Simple explanations and C language examples show you how to address performance issues with algorithms, memory access, branching, SIMD instructions, multiple threads, and floating-point calculations. With this book, you need not be a processor architect or assembly language expert to get the full power out of your software on the 32-bit Intel Architecture.
Learn how to: - Use performance tools and tested concepts to analyze and improve applications.
- Determine which portions of an application should be given highest priority for optimizations.
- Identify the reasons that certain portions of your application are slower than they should be.
- Improve an application by working directly on the root cause of a software bottleneck.
- Design an application from the ground up for maximum performance.
About The Author
Richard Berber joined Intel in 1991, and through years of learning-by-doing, he has become an expert in performance programming and optimizations. He has worked on numerous multimedia projects, 3D libraries, and computer games. As a software engineer, he works on the Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer and trains developers on optimization techniques.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book, written by an Intel engineer, presents numerous discussions of non-obvious ways to improve code performance. Gerber makes the material, which sometimes can be a bit abstruse, easy to read and understand. You frequently get the feeling you have completely understood something that four pages prior you'd never heard of nor thought about. The code is mostly in C, with occasional assembly language. My only hesitation with the book is that it makes frequent reference to Intel's VTune performance profiler. VTune is an excellent product. I own a copy. However, if you don't have VTune, you can download a full-blown 30-day time-locked version from Intel's website. If you're going to read through this book sequentially, I highly suggest having VTune at hand. The book came out prior to the release of the Pentium 4, so some optimizations for this processor are simply not addressed. Otherwise, a very good, very readable book
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