siwenzhang / awesomeperfcpp

A curated list of awesome C/C++ performance optimization resources: talks, articles, books, libraries, tools, sites, blogs. Inspired by awesome.

##Contents

• Talks
• Articles
• Sites/Blogs
• Tools
• Libraries
• Books
• About

##Talks

2013:

• Going Native 2013 - Andrei Alexandrescu, Writing Quick Code in C++, Quickly

2014:

• code::dive conference 2014 Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care(slides)
• CppCon 2014 Andrei Alexandrescu "Optimization Tips - Mo' Hustle Mo' Problems"
• CppCon 2014 Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"
• CppCon 2014 Chandler Carruth "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures"

2015:

• code::dive conference 2015 Andrei Alexandrescu - Writing Fast Code I (slides)
• code::dive conference 2015 Andrei Alexandrescu - Writing Fast Code II (slides)
• CppCon 2015 Chandler Carruth, "Tuning C++: Benchmarks, and CPUs, and Compilers! Oh My!"
• CppCon 2015 Bryce Adelstein-Lelbach “Benchmarking C++ Code"
• Meeting C++ 2015 Understanding Compiler Optimization - Chandler Carruth - Opening Keynote

2016:

• ACCU 2016 'Fastware' - Andrei Alexandrescu
• C++Now 2016 Timur Doumler: C++ Performance in Practice: Align, Vectorise, Cache, Jump! (slides)
• C++Now 2016 David Stone: Exceptional Performance
• C++Now 2016 Jason Turner: Practical Performance Practices
• CppCon 2016 Timur Doumler “Want fast C++? Know your hardware!"
• CppCon 2016 Jason Turner “Practical Performance Practices"
• CppCon 2016 Chandler Carruth “High Performance Code 201: Hybrid Data Structures"
• CppCon 2016 McKenney “Beyond the Issaquah Challenge: High-Performance Scalable Complex Updates"
• CppCon 2016 D. Dechev & D. Zhang “High Performance C++ Concurrent Transactional Data Structures"
• CppCon 2016 Matthew Bentley “Colonies, performance and why you should care"
• CppCon 2016 Christiaan Pretorius “Cache Optimized Hash Tables”
• CppCon 2016 Tim Haines “Improving Performance Through Compiler Switches..."

##Articles

• Three Optimization Tips for C++, by Andrei Alexandrescu, @Facebook Engineering
• why GNU grep is fast
• Hash Functions all the way down from Aras-P, and the follow up here
• Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels?
• ETW Central - by RandomASCII
• Micro benchmarking libraries for C++ - on Bartek's blog
• How to start with Software Optimization, from Flexible Particle Experiments series, Bartek's blog.
• Taking advantage of cache coherence in your programs
• Gallery of Processor Cache Effects, C#
• How We Beat C++ STL Binary Search
• C++ benchmark – std::vector VS std::list VS std::deque
• Container Study
• Associative-Container Performance Tests
• C++ Core Guidelines, Performance section
• C++ Best Practices, Performance section
• That’s Not Normal–the Performance of Odd Floats
• gprof, Valgrind and gperftools – an evaluation of some tools for application level CPU profiling on Linux
• The Performance API (PAPI) project
• Roofline Performance Model
• C++ timing strategies compared (in Windows) - from baremetalcode blog.

Manuals:

• Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual

##Sites/Blogs

• Agner`s CPU blog
• Agner's Software optimization resources
• The ryg blog
• Random ASCII
• The Every Computer Performance Blog
• The Supercomputing Blog
• Daniel Lemire's blog
• Bartek's programming blog

##Tools

###Free

• AMD Code XL
• Very Sleepy
• Proffy
• Windows Performance Toolkit - XPERF
• Performance and Diagnostic Tools in Visual Studio 2015
• Valgrind
• TAU Performance System
• Google Performance Tools (gperftools)
• Linux perf tools
• NVIDIA Visual Profiler
• Qualcomm Snapdragon Profiler
• Oracle Solaris Studio Performance Analyzer
• OProfile for Linux

###Paid

• Intel® VTune™
• Intel® Vectorization and Threading Advisor
• AQtime Pro, from SmartBear
• GlowCode

##Libraries

• Celero micro-benchmarking library
• Nonius library
• Hayai micro benchmarking library, into article
• Google benchmark library

##Books

• PDF: optimizing C++ - by Agner Fog. FREE
• Optimizing C++, WikiBooks - FREE
• The Software Optimization Cookbook: High Performance Recipes for IA-32 Platforms, 2nd Edition
• Video Game Optimization, Eric Preisz
• Optimized C++: Proven Techniques for Heightened Performance, Kurt Guntheroth
• Power and Performance: Software Analysis and Optimization, Jim Kukunas
• Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Brendan Gregg
• Every Computer Performance Book, Bob Wescott

##About This list was started by Bartlomiej Filipek (@fenbf). If you like to help please read CONTRIBUTING.md instructions and just make a pull request to this repo.

##License

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