Performance Profiling and Optimization Session at Microsoft

Yesterday I delivered a short closed session on performance profiling and optimization at Microsoft Raanana. Thanks to Maor David for hosting this session.

Thanks to a very attentive audience I was able to cover all of the following:

• The pitfalls of micro-benchmarking
• Performance measurement with the Visual Studio Profiler
• Instrumentation for production profiling
• The case of the 250ms delay
• CPU cache optimization in general, cache collision on SMP
• Parallelization with C++/AMP

The slides are demos are available online. The slides are quite short, but the demos might be useful even if you haven’t been there :-)