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In this chapter, we introduced tuning techniques for eliminating program clutter — anything that contributes to the runtime without contributing to the answer. We saw many examples of tuning techniques — enough that you may be asking yourself, “What’s left?” Well, as we will see in the upcoming chapters, there are a couple of ways we can help the compiler:

  • Find more parallelism
  • Use memory as effectively as possible

Sometimes this means we make changes that are not beautiful. However, they are often quick.

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Source:  OpenStax, High performance computing. OpenStax CNX. Aug 25, 2010 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11136/1.5
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