{"id":10934,"date":"2015-04-02T08:56:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10934"},"modified":"2015-04-02T08:56:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T12:56:14","slug":"the-death-of-optimizing-compilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/02\/the-death-of-optimizing-compilers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Optimizing Compilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashbreaker\/status\/576748897772650496\">Daniel J. Bernstein<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashbreaker\/status\/576748897772650496\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashbreaker\/status\/576748897772650496\"><p>Have compilers become so smart that they automatically turn clean high-level code for these hot spots into optimized code, removing the need for humans to be optimization experts? The reality, unfortunately, is very much the opposite: general-purpose &ldquo;optimizing&rdquo; compilers are falling farther and farther behind the actual capabilities of modern processors.<\/p>\n<p>This tutorial is an introduction to (1) what current and near-future processors are capable of; (2) how modern high-speed software libraries actually work; and (3) the increasing dominance of domain-specific tools to engineer high-speed software.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully the full talk will be available after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etaps.org\/index.php\/2015\">ETAPS 2015<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel J. Bernstein (tweet): Have compilers become so smart that they automatically turn clean high-level code for these hot spots into optimized code, removing the need for humans to be optimization experts? The reality, unfortunately, is very much the opposite: general-purpose &ldquo;optimizing&rdquo; compilers are falling farther and farther behind the actual capabilities of modern processors. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[255,138,71],"class_list":["post-10934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-compiler","tag-optimization","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10935,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934\/revisions\/10935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}