Biography
Matt Godbolt is the creator and primary maintainer of Compiler Explorer. A C++ developer based in Chicago, he works at Hudson River Trading and is one half of the Two's Complement podcast. His career has been a steady journey deeper into the machine: from writing rendering engines for video games to years of low-latency trading systems. His recent Advent of Compiler Optimisations series explored things compilers do that feel like magic. When not hacking on Compiler Explorer, Matt likes to write emulators for the computers he grew up on, the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro and Sega Master System.
Talk: “Performance Tuning - there's no such thing as the fastest code...”
Abstract: When is code really fast enough? How can you tell? In finance we care about performance a lot, and in this talk Matt will show you that achieving low latency is an interesting, fun and sometimes surprising process.