6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems
6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems (Fall 2018, MIT OCW). Instructors: Prof. Charles Leiserson and Prof. Julian Shun. 6.172 is an 18-unit class that provides 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, caching optimizations, parallel programming, and building scalable systems. The course programming language is C. (from ocw.mit.edu)
| Lecture 09 - What Compilers can and cannot Do |
T.B. Schardl discusses the Clang/LLVM compilation pipeline as well as reasons to study compiler optimizations, how to use compiler reports, and compiler optimization. Three case studies on diagnosing failures are examined.
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