Performance

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Random distributions are not one-size-fits-all (part 2.5)

I recently realized that I could try to implement the reuse-oriented distributions from part 2 using libdivide instead of native (hardware) division (modulo). »

Random distributions are not one-size-fits-all (part 2)

In this part, we will look at different algorithms for generating uniformly distributed random numbers and determine whether they fit specific use cases better than Lemire's algorithm. »

Random distributions are not one-size-fits-all (part 1)

Recently I was again on CppCast, and again I talked about C++'s standard library support for random numbers. One of the things I said was that random distributions are not one-size-fits-all. This post is about how this applies to Lemire's algorithm for generating uniformly distributed integers. »

The Little Things: The Missing Performance in std::vector

`std::vector` is often said to be the default container, because it provides good baseline performance for common operations. Recently, I experimented with a simple API change that can improve the performance of a common usage pattern by 10+ %. »

Stop talking about Amdahl's law

Without talking about Gustafson's law and the assumptions both make. »

The Little Things: Why you should always have benchmarks ready

At the end of January, I removed some low-hanging allocations from Catch2. This meant that running the SelfTest binary in v3.3.1 made 8k fewer allocations, but it also made section tracking in v3.3.1 ~4x slower. This post is about how that happened and what we can learn from this. »

The Little Things: Everyday efficiencies

Premature optimization is often said to be the root of all evil, because it makes future maintenance harder. I want to show some cases where the faster code is just (or more) as maintainable as the slower one. »