Introduction
Performance is one of the most important qualities of software programs. You can’t have world-beating software without world-beating performance. For a long time, hardware improvements meant that worrying about software performance seemed a waste of time, but with Moore’s Law no longer automatically providing significant automatic performance improvements, performance optimization is coming back to the forefront of both computer science and engineering.
In addition, performance for end users seems to have gotten only marginally better, whereas the performance of the underlying hardware has improved by many orders of magnitude. Bill Gates quipped that “the speed of software halves every 18 months,” whereas Wirth’s law in A Plea for ...
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