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Peddle the Pedal to the Metal

Howard Chu gives tips and techniques for writing highly efficient and scalable software drawn from decades of experience. The talk is focused on programming in C.

Howard Chu
on Apr 23, 2019

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41:07
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Parsing Safely, from 500MB/s to 2GB/s

Geoffroy Couprie describes a few common issues in parsers, and how they interact with performance, showing how to get the performance of handwritten C parsers using Rust.

Geoffroy Couprie
on Apr 08, 2019

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Development

From Rocks to Rust: Our C to Rust Paradigm Shift

Esther Momcilovic talks about the reasons why Metaswitch chose Rust, and what it’s been like for the development teams getting to grips with this language.

Esther Momcilovic
on May 16, 2018

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37:05
Development

Implementing Software Machines in Go and C

Eleanor McHugh discusses writing virtual machines using hardware emulation, including code snippets in Go and C.

Eleanor McHugh
on Jul 05, 2016

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46:33
Development

Java vs. C Performance

Cliff Click takes a look at Java vs C performance. He discusses both languages' strong and weak points and the programming context surrounding language choices.

Cliff Click
on Mar 27, 2016

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48:38
Architecture & Design

LDB: 10x Performance Increase after Rewriting Linked-in C Module in Pure Erlang

Daniel Pezely discusses the 10 fold performance increase of a Lisp and C system after rewriting it in Erlang, outlining where issues existed before and the design and implementation of the new system.

Daniel Pezely
on Sep 05, 2015

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Codan - a Code Analysis Framework for CDT

Elena Laskavaia explains how to write a simple C/C++ checker to find errors in code with Code Analysis Framework (codan) and the AST introspection APIs of the CDT.

Elena Laskavaia
on Jun 17, 2015

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Faster Objects and Arrays

Gil Tene introduces org.ObjectLayout, a new Java package designed specifically to enable JVMs to optimize memory layout for arrays and objects matching the performance of arrays of structs in C.

Gil Tene
on May 10, 2015

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Clojure Is the New C

Robert Martin argues that Clojure is a replacement for C with its simple syntax and minimal semantics.

Robert Martin
on Nov 16, 2014

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01:28:09
Scaling Chartbeat from 8 Million Open Browsers to Realtime Analytics and Optimization

Wesley Chow presents Chartbeat's real-time analytics platform and how able to handle the requests in a cost efficient manner using a custom written analytics engine in C and Lua.

Wesley Chow
on Oct 26, 2014

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Practicing at the Cutting Edge

Martin Thompson focuses on the evolution of Java in contrast with C/C++, covering the cultural challenges of performance limits and how to collaborate with industry experts and organize teams.

Martin Thompson
on Jul 03, 2014

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Order Notation in Practice

Roger Orr solves a problem with different levels of complexity trying to answer what the complexity notation actually means and why it is important in practice.

Roger Orr
on Jun 18, 2014

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01:18:44