The Art of Writing Efficient Programs

An advanced programmer's guide to efficient hardware utilization and compiler optimizations using C++ examples

Fedor G. Pikus

BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI

The Art of Writing Efficient Programs

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Contributors

About the author

Fedor G. Pikus is a chief engineering scientist in the Mentor IC Segment of Siemens Digital Industries Software and is responsible for the long-term technical direction of Calibre products, the design and architecture of software, and research into new software technologies. His previous roles included senior software engineer at Google and chief software architect at Mentor Graphics. Fedor is a recognized expert in high-performance computing and C++. He has presented his works at CPPCon, SD West, DesignCon, and in software development journals, and is also an O'Reilly author. Fedor has over 25 patents and over 100 papers and conference presentations on physics, EDA, software design, and C++.

I want to thank my wife, Galina, and my sons, Aaron and Benjamin, who supported and encouraged me and never lost faith in me, and my cat, Pooh, for cheering me up when I needed it.

About the reviewer

Sergey Gomon started his journey in IT 12 years ago at Belarus State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, in the Artificial Intelligence department. He has about 8 years of industrial programming experience using C++ in several fields, including network programming, information security, and image processing. He currently works at N-able and is an activist in the CoreHard C++ community.