BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20261015T130051-105469778-northwestern.edu DTSTAMP:20261015T130051 DTSTART:20260928T120000 DTEND:20260928T130000 SUMMARY:CS Seminar: What 25 Days of Optimisations Taught Me About Compilers (Matt Godbolt) LOCATION:3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library) DESCRIPTION:Monday / CS Seminar\nSeptember 28 / 12:00 PM\nHybrid / Mudd 3514\nSpeaker\nMatt Godbolt, Hudson River Trading\nTalk Title\nWhat 25 Days of Optimisations Taught Me About Compilers\nAbstract\nIn December last year I posted a short video every day about a different compiler optimisation. Some were obvious, some surprised me, a handful caught me out completely, and some turned out to be compiler bugs. This talk distils the most interesting into one story about where modern optimisers are scarily good, where they're stubbornly bad, and what we can do as C++ programmers to help them.\nBiography\nMatt 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. 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.\n\nPiP URL: https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/642867 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR ORGANIZER:Department of Computer Science (CS)