CPU dispatchingh is all about making your code portable and fast. We will talk about how to make your detect features your CPU has at is disposal and select the fastest function for that particular CPU without a need to recompile your software.
GDB: A quick guide to make your debugging easier
We will talk about how to profit from some of GDB’s very useful albeit less known features.
Make your programs run faster: avoid function calls
Function calls are not cheap operations and for time critical code it is better to avoid them. This article explores techniques you can use to avoid function calls thus speeding up your code.
FlameGraphs: Understand where your program is spending time
Learn about FlameGraphs, a great tool that will help you quickly find slow functions in your program.
MOSH – a simple SSH replacement that works when network conditions are bad
Connection keeps dropping with SSH? Read about mosh, a simple addition to SSH that can keep your connection survive the rough network environment.
Link Time Optimizations: New Way to Do Compiler Optimizations
Traditional compilation-linking cycle generates binaries that work fine, but in case you need more speed, you need to learn about link time optimizations. Here we talk about what link time optimizations are, how to enable them and what improvements to expect.
Make your programs run faster by better using the data cache
We investigate how the data cache influences the performance of your program, talk about ways for you to write faster programs by better leveraging the data cache.
A story about error recovery a.k.a those boring recurring bugs and what to do about them
I believe everyone has some kind of problem or failure in their system that happens from time to time, that is not that terrible but it hurts the system. This is a short post about exactly that kind of problems and what we did to fix them. My company uses a very large continuous integration…