Top-Down Software Optimization
Alexander Supalov, Andrey Semin, Michael Klemm, Christopher Dahnken · Apress eBooks · 2014
The tuning of a previously unoptimized hardware/software combination is a difficult task, one that even experts struggle with. Anything can go wrong here, from the proper setup to the compilation and execution of individual machine instructions. It is, therefore, of paramount importance to follow a logical and systematic approach to improve performance incrementally, continuously exposing the next bottleneck to be fixed.