'Fastware' - Andrei Alexandrescu [ ACCU 2016 ]

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 angle on it, and talks about it a great deal; yet in spite of ample folklore, few get to do it well, meaningfully, or at all. Improving the ordeals of teenage years being too large a project, the next best thing to do is teaching how to write fast code. So Andrei set out to write a book about it. This talk is a sneak preview into some of the book’s material.