CHAPTER 3
Top-Down Software Optimization
The tuning of a previously unoptimized hardware/software combination is a difficult task, one that even experts struggle with. Anything can go wrong here, from the proper setup to the compilation and execution of individual machine instructions. It is, therefore, of paramount importance to follow a logical and systematic approach to improve performance incrementally, continuously exposing the next bottleneck to be fixed.
This chapter provides such a framework. We will talk very little here about what and how to tune but, rather, leave that to subsequent chapters to consider in detail. We will instead specify ...
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