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'Fastware' - Andrei Alexandrescu [ ACCU 2016 ]
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Andrei Alexandrescu's ACCU 2016 talk previews material from his book on writing fast code, with a focus on optimization techniques such as sentinels and faster search.
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HN recommends it as a careful, entertaining talk on low-level optimization that shows how textbook algorithms can be sped up.
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See Alexandrescu’s Fastware talk on how amazingly sentinels can improve even textbook algorithms, and how to apply the approach intelligently. E.g., for a linear search, overwrite the last element with the sought after value, and do a tiny bit of work to make that safe and to undo it before return. If you’re skeptical, I really do encourage you to watch, he’s not sloppy. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Andrei Alexandrescu describe the usage of this kind of search to speed up quicksort in his 'Fastware' (fun) video: [VIDEO] Discussed here: [LINK]
Read original comment ↗Assuming you're talking about Concepts, I've heard Andrei Alexandrescu, for example, challenge that hope [0], but I'd be happy to hear this has been fixed. [0] [VIDEO]
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