Comments on: Locality optimization experiments

By: Kristof Beyls

Kristof Beyls — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:59:58 +0000

> And the second question is: where are the tools to help the programmers with locality optimization?

Hi Michael,

I would like to point you to a locality optimization tool we have just released on sourceforge last weekend: http://slo.sourceforge.net.
The tool profiles the data reuses in a program and suggests the most effective code refactorings that are needed to improve locality.

By: Michael Suess

Michael Suess — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:26:25 +0000

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By: Christopher Aycock

Christopher Aycock — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:40:22 +0000

Regarding vectorization, there is always the Blitz++ library. It uses a sophisticated template mechanism to delay computation until an assignment statement has been reached; this is important so as to reduce intermittent copying. In a way, this technique resembles lazy evaluation in languages like Haskell.

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By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:12:20 +0000

Hey! Really nice article

I’m just beginning with concurrent programming, the next step would be paralell !!

I’ve got one question for you: do you use any plugin to format the code in WordPress? I can’t get to show my code snippets like that :S

Alejandro.