Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1 – Performance Fundamentals
Chapter 1: Introduction to Performance and Concurrency
Why focus on performance?
Why performance matters
What is performance?
Performance as throughput
Performance as power consumption
Performance for real-time applications
Performance as dependent on context
Evaluating, estimating, and predicting performance
Learning about high performance
Summary
Questions
Chapter 2: Performance Measurements
Technical requirements
Performance measurements by example
Performance benchmarking
C++ chrono timers
High-resolution timers
Performance profiling
The perf profiler
Detailed profiling with perf
The Google Performance profiler
Profiling with call graphs
Optimization and inlining
Practical profiling ...
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