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A Different Way of Rounding to Even
The round-to-even method, also known as unbiased rounding or statistician’s rounding, is a very popular type of rounding floating-point numbers to integral numbers. This kind of rounding is very important for statisticians and bankers because the average error is due … Continue reading
Framewave Multipass Build System
Developing libraries can be difficult, fun and interesting; an equally difficult task is testing the library and distributing it, so that other developers can use the library in their projects. The big advantage of using libraries to accomplish certain … Continue reading
AMD CodeAnalyst Workshop Summary – Part 3 of 5
This blog covers the first type of profiling: timer-based sampling and call stack sampling. Timer-based sampling Here I discuss why and how to use the timer-based sampling feature of AMD CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer. If you’re already convinced about using timer-based … Continue reading
Faster string operations
libsst.so: super-fast string scanning functions In the broad scheme of improving application (and system) compute performance, there are a number of optimizations which can be applied at various points in software development and deployment, the most common being the enabling … Continue reading
Welcome to the AMD Libraries blog
Welcome to the AMD Libraries blog, which comes direct to you from the AMD Performance Libraries team. Here, we will discuss emerging trends, best practices and insider tips for optimizing code for stellar performance using AMD’s performance and optimization routines … Continue reading
