What every programmer should know about how CPUs work [video]

A fine addition to my "every programmer should know" collection that I never use because I only ship CRUD apps

For the curious, I would recommend ( https://products.easyperf.net/perf-book-2 )

So that's what happened in the past 40 years of Moore's law since I wrote MS-DOS Assembler programs. Optimization of serial instructions like that is amazing.

The Matt Godbolt behind godbolt.org? Wow.

All of his talks are very good

thanks

.. by Matt Godbolt, of Compiler Explorer. 45m long. If you're evaluating whether to bother with video.

Thank you, the headline didn't interest me until I saw you mention that name.

Waiting for the GPU version.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Z4oGN89MU

That's a basic high level overview for a general audience, not a microarchitecture explanation for programmers.

If you are strapped for time, I think the most important part of this talk begins at 36:46.

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