low_level_programming.md

Low Level Programming and Performance Engineering

Overview

• 🎓🎥 MIT OCW performance engineering of software systems
• 📘 Algorithms for Modern Hardware

Memory

Cache

• 📘 A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence Second Edition

Access Pattern

• 🔗 For Software Performance, the Way Data is Accessed Matters!

Allocation

• 🔗 Memory Allocation Strategies - A series on custom allocators

Floating-point numbers

• 📄 What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic
• 🔗 Floating-point in mobile shaders

Pointers

• 🔗 Pointers Are Complicated, or: What's in a Byte?
• 🔗 Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs
• 📄🎥 Exploring C semantics and pointer provenance [Paper][Video]

ABI

• 📄 System V Application Binary Interface
• 📄 Procedure Call Standard for the ARM 64-bit Architecture (AArch64)