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High-Performance Recipes for IA-32 Platforms
by Richard Gerber, Aart J.C. Bik, Kevin B. Smith and Xinmin Tian |
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Get the most out of Intel IA-32 platforms with Intel® EM64T and multi-core
processing.
The Software Optimization Cookbook, Second Edition, provides updated
recipes for high-performance applications on Intel platforms. Through simple
explanations and examples, four Intel experts show you how to address
performance issues with algorithms, memory access, branch prediction, automatic
vectorization, SIMD instructions, multiple threads, and floating-point
calculations.
Software developers learn how to take advantage of Intel® Extended Memory
64 Technology (Intel® EM64T), multi-core processing, Hyper-Threading
Technology, OpenMP*, and multimedia extensions. This book guides you through
the growing collection of software tools, compiler switches, and coding
optimizations, showing you efficient ways to improve the performance of
software applications for Intel platforms.
Highlights include:
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Choosing the right algorithm |
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Automatic vectorization and hints on how to guide the
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Compiler support for multi-threading |
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The performance impacts of shared L2 and L3 caches |
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Loop optimizations and when to use the compiler for
performance gain |
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Use of intrinsics to exploit SIMD technology |
Software developers who want to understand the latest techniques for delivering
more performance and to fine-tune their coding skills will benefit from this
book.
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"A must-read text for anyone who intends to write
performance-critical applications for the Intel processor family."
—Robert
van Engelen, Professor, Florida State University
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"This book simplifies the task for engineers who strive to develop
high-performance software without sacrificing source code readability or having
to understand all the nitty-gritty details of IA-32 processors."
—Lars
Petter Endresen, Doctor of Engineering, Physics Scandpower Petroleum Technology
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Richard Gerber has worked on numerous multimedia projects, 3D
libraries, and computer games for Intel. As a software engineer, he worked on
the Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer and led training sessions on
optimization techniques. Richard is the original author of The Software
Optimization Cookbook and co-author of Programming with Hyper-Threading
Technology.
Aart J.C. Bik holds a PhD in computer science and is a
Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation, working on the development of high
performance Intel® C++ and Fortran compilers. Aart received an Intel
Achievement Award, the company's highest award, for making the Intel Streaming
SIMD Extensions easier to use through automatic vectorization. Aart is the
author of The Software Vectorization Handbook.
Kevin B. Smith is a software architect for Intel's C and
FORTRAN compilers. Since 1981 he has worked on optimizing compilers for Intel
8086, 80186, i960®, Pentium®, Pentium Pro, Pentium III, Pentium 4,
and Pentium M processors.
Xinmin Tian holds a PhD in computer science and leads an Intel
development group working on exploiting thread-level parallelism in
high-performance Intel® C++ and Fortran compilers for Intel Itanium®,
IA-32, Intel® EM64T, and multi-core architectures.
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