Speed and software should go hand in hand, but with Moore's Law coming to an end and CPU clock speeds remaining steady over the last 20 years, software engineers need to turn to new techniques to improve the efficiency of their code. In this episode, Matt and Angelica and joined by Clement Jean to discuss one of these techniques: SIMD. They'll discuss what SIMD is, how it can be used from languages like Go, the various proposals to get better support for SIMD directly into Go and its compiler, and a bunch of other related topics.

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Table of Contents:

Prologue (03:36)
Chapter 1: What is SIMD? (04:56)
Chapter 2: SIMD in Go (13:20)
Chapter 3: When should one use SIMD? (18:43)
Chapter 4: Clement's journey to SIMD [Supporter Only] (21:19)
Chapter 5: SIMD Intrinsics in Go (21:32)
Chapter 6: SIMD in other languages (35:47)
Chapter 7: Measuring SIMD performance (43:00)
Chapter 8: Data Oriented Design [Supporter Only] (52:52)
Chapter 9: SIMD-JSON (52:59)
Chapter 10: Protocol Buffers, gRPC, and cURL [Supporter Only] (58:11)
Epilogue (01:01:50)

Hosts

Matthew Sanabria - Host
Angelica Hill - Producer
Kris Brandow - Producer
Clément Jean - Guest

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(03:36) - Prologue
(04:56) - Chapter 1: What is SIMD?
(13:20) - Chapter 2: SIMD in Go
(18:43) - Chapter 3: When should one use SIMD?
(21:19) - Chapter 4: Clement's journey to SIMD [Supporter Only]
(21:32) - Chapter 5: SIMD Intrinsics in Go
(35:47) - Chapter 6: SIMD in other languages
(43:00) - Chapter 7: Measuring SIMD performance
(52:52) - Chapter 8: Data Oriented Design [Supporter Only]
(52:59) - Chapter 9: SIMD-JSON
(58:11) - Chapter 10: Protocol Buffers, gRPC, and cURL [Supporter Only]
(01:01:50) - Epilogue

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