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In this chapter we will study how to write faster code. In order to do that, we will look into SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) instructions, study compiler optimizations, and hardware cache functioning.

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    We omit the talk about instruction cache for brevity.

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Zhirkov, I. (2017). Performance. In: Low-Level Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2403-8_16

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