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6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems

6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems (Fall 2010, MIT OCW). Instructors: Professor Saman Amarasinghe and Professor Charles Leiserson. This course is a hands-on, project-based introduction to building scalable and high-performance software systems. Topics include performance analysis, algorithmic techniques for high performance, instruction-level optimizations, cache and memory hierarchy optimization, parallel programming, and building scalable distributed systems. (from ocw.mit.edu)

The first part of the lecture covers parallelism analysis, caches, and synchronization correctness. The second focuses on compiler optimization questions: is the optimization legal, faster, and automatic?

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