To some extent, optimization is to our industry what sexual intercourse is to teenagers. There’s a veil of awesomeness surrounding it; everybody thinks it’s cool, has an opinion about it, and talks about it a great deal; yet in spite of ample folklore, few get to do it meaningfully or at all. - There’s Treasure Everywhere (NDC 2017)

Reducing Dependencies

• Instruction level parallelism
  • study; String to integer
  • associative means parallelizable
  • use unsigned wraparound

Materials

• facebook/folly
• Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles