Power and Performance

Jim Kukunas began programming at a young age, teaching himself C and x86 assembly. He is an alumnus of Allegheny College with a degree in Computer Science. Today, he is a software engineer in Intel's Open Source Technology Center. As a performance optimization engineer on the core Linux kernel team, much of his work focuses on kernel space and user space performance optimizations. His efforts have enhanced many projects including the Linux kernel, Zlib, the Englightenment Foundation Libraries, Meego, Android, and many others.

Part I: Background Knowledge1. Early Intel Architecture2. Intel Pentium processors3. Intel Core processors4. Performance Workflow5. Designing Experiments

Part II: Monitors6. Introduction to Profiling7. Intel VTune Amplifier XE8. Perf9. Ftrace10. GPU Profiling Tools11. Other Helpful Tools

Part III: Optimization Techniques12. Toolchain Prime13. Branching14. Optimizing Cache Usage15. Exploiting Parallelism16. Special Instructions