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Compiler optimization with Greta Yorsh
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Length:
70 minutes
Released:
Sep 30, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
It’s a software engineer’s dream: A compiler that can take idiomatic high-level code and output maximally efficient instructions. Ron’s guest this week is Greta Yorsh, who has worked on just that problem in a career spanning both industry and academia. Ron and Greta talk about some of the tricks that compilers use to make our software faster, ranging from feedback-directed optimization and super-optimization to formal analysis.You can find the transcript for this episode along with links to things we discussed on our website.
Released:
Sep 30, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (20)
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