The "Optimizing for Pentium® II and Pentium Pro Processors" tutorial introduces you to the Pentium Pro processor architecture family and describes optimization techniques that improve your application's performance on these processors. The tutorial features six lessons: Processor Microarchitecture describes the microarchitectural features that have the greatest influence on code performance. Branch Optimization teaches you how to remove some branches and minimize the cost of those that remain. Cache and Memory Access Optimization teaches principles for declaring and accessing data and instructions. Decoder Optimization describes how to maximize the number of instructions decoded in each cycle. Execution Optimization describes ways to improve parallel execution of micro-ops in the processor's out-of-order core. Floating-point Optmization presents guidelines that improve the performance of floating-point code. Before downloading, check out this Internet version of sample tutorial topics! (Requires JavaScript-enabled browser.)

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