Outlook Series | Craig Szydlowski, Intel Strategic Marketing Engineer | How much software optimization is enough?

<SCRIPT language='JavaScript1.1' SRC="http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N553.ae.entrepreneur/B2608140.5;sz=160x600;click=http://atlas.entrepreneur.com/accipiter/adclick/CID=0000099e64e3f66300000000//site=Entrepreneur.com/area=homepage/aamsz=Skyscraper/acc_random=85200910/pageid=85200910/relocate=;ord=85200910?"></SCRIPT><NOSCRIPT><A HREF="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/N553.ae.entrepreneur/B2608140.5;sz=160x600;ord=85200910?"><IMG SRC="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N553.ae.entrepreneur/B2608140.5;sz=160x600;click=http://atlas.entrepreneur.com/accipiter/adclick/CID=0000099e64e3f66300000000//site=Entrepreneur.com/area=homepage/aamsz=Skyscraper/acc_random=85200910/pageid=85200910/relocate=;ord=85200910?" BORDER=0 WIDTH=160 HEIGHT=600 ALT=""></A></NOSCRIPT> Application software optimization is seldom a smooth and straight forward process.

Software developers must often experiment with a range of techniques and configurations in order to wring performance out of their system.

Fueling the complexity is advanced CPUs with multiple cores, large caches, and hardware prefetchers, making the software optimization process anything but simple and intuitive.

We interview Craig Szydlowski to gain insight into how much software optimization is enough for multi-core processors.

Craig is a strategic marketing engineer for the infrastructure processor division at Intel.

36 Minutes