optimization

“One of Yahoo's Hadoop clusters sorted 1 terabyte of data in 209 seconds, which beat the previous record of 297 seconds in the annual general purpose (daytona) terabyte sort benchmark. The sort benchmark, which was created in 1998 by Jim more...

In 1987, Henry Massalin invented the “superoptimizer,” a program that finds the shortest possible instruction sequence for a given function. The superoptimizer works by sheer dumb luck: it checks whether every possible instruction sequence up to a given length produces more...