CppCon 2015: Chandler Carruth "Tuning C++: Benchmarks, and CPUs, and Compilers! Oh My!"

There is a very interesting talk [1] by Chandler Carruth that I stumbled upon last weekend that is very much related to this [1] ▶ this video

> Anecdote: Optimum C blew away all the other C compilers on a magazine benchmark article because it figured out that the benchmark code did nothing and deleted it. I remember this problem being discussed in a CPPCon talk a few years ago, and some ways to "trick" the (modern) compilers into not optimising away the benchmark code - I think it was Chandler Carruth's "Tuning C++" talk: ▶ this video

Here's a few: - "Tuning C++: Benchmarks, and CPUs, and Compilers! Oh My!" ▶ this video - "Understanding Compiler Optimization" link - "Optimizing the Emergent Structures of C++" link - "Efficiency with Algorithms" link The first one is really good if you've never benchmarked anything in a Linux environment. Or if you otherwise want to learn how to investigate how C++ gets turned into machine code.

Interestingly, there's quite a bit that's needed to ensure you bypass some compiler optimizations. Here's an ey-opening (for me) talk[1] on benchmarking C++ and compilers which touched on it. 1: ▶ this video