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The three ingredients to making performance engineering easier and more fun
Given two "alternatives" X and Y, your next question makes all the difference.
Jul 3
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Bruce Hoppe
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June 2025
Separating mechanism from policy: lock-free locks
Sometimes your program can have its cake and eat it too
Jun 5
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Bruce Hoppe
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May 2025
Announcing OpenCilk 3.0
Making it easier for you to write fast programs in your favorite IDE
May 14
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Tao B. Schardl
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April 2025
The due diligence of optimizing parallel BFS
How RGBSM worked hard to win the Fastcode Programming Challenge
Apr 29
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Bruce Hoppe
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Frankenstein's program, or abstracting domain knowledge
Why program from scratch when it's easier and faster to use existing parts?
Apr 22
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Bruce Hoppe
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Asynchronous many-task runtimes
Modern computer systems demand new ways of thinking. Asynchronous many-task (AMT) runtimes offer a powerful approach to concurrency at scale.
Apr 17
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Rod Tohid
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Comparing shared-memory platforms for performance engineering
We break down key features to help you choose the right platform for writing fast code.
Apr 9
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Bruce Hoppe
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March 2025
What the $#@! is parallelism, anyhow?
We take inspiration from Amdahl's Law to give a more "authoritative" introduction to the basic concepts of multithreaded execution — work, span, and…
Mar 25
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Charles E. Leiserson
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Highlights from the Fastcode Programming Challenge
Congratulations to all participants in our inaugural programming competition at PPoPP25
Mar 12
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Bruce Hoppe
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My experience teaching software performance engineering
In fall 2021, I taught a graduate course in performance engineering at UC Davis, based on MIT's 6.106. I had an absolutely fantastic time learning and…
Mar 1
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John Owens
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February 2025
The importance of software performance engineering
It's time to prioritize software performance engineering, and the Computing Research Association offers four recommendations for proceeding.
Feb 20
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Bruce Hoppe
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The computing-performance paradox
Why should we care about how fast our software runs, when many other properties are often more important? Perhaps the answer lies in 18th century…
Feb 12
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Charles E. Leiserson
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