In this excerpt from his book “Write Great Code,” Randall Hyde introduces the common optimizations that compilers perform, and when a programmer should consider using or disabling them. Later chapters ...

Compilers are programs that convert computer code written in high-level languages intelligible to humans into low-level instructions executable by machines. But there's more than one way to implement ...

Optimizing MySQL database performance, especially in heavy demand public cloud services, is a key challenge for data base administrators. IT operations and maintenance developers have found that just ...

How jump threading works in general to improve program execution speeds, and how Codasip’s jump threading pass works in particular. The architectural efficiency of embedded processor IP is measured by ...

On another forum a person put forward the assertion that GCC has caught up to Intel C/C++ compiler for vectorization and that Intel is even pushing their optimizations into GCC. Is this true? I'm ...

Redis and Intel teamed up to find out whether applying more aggressive optimization options would improve overall Redis baseline performance. Our conclusion: By changing the compiler behavior, we ...

Part 1 explains how Atmel used the Target tools to develop a DSP optimized for C programming. In the first part of this two part series, we outlined the main reasons we designed the mAgic DSP ...

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, announced from DESIGN West in San Jose, Calif., MPLAB® XC—its simplified line of C compilers that ...