Compiler Optimization

Link to Compiler Optimization article on MSDN This article is about Visual C++ compiler optimizations. I’m going to discuss the most important optimization techniques and the decisions a compiler has to make in order to apply them. The purpose isn’t to tell you how to manually optimize the code, but to show you why you …

Estimating the Energy Cost of (Artificial) Evolution

This short discussion paper sets out to explore the question: what is the energy cost of evolving complex artificial life? The paper takes an unconventional approach by first estimating the energy cost of natural evolution and, in particular, the species Homo Sapiens Sapiens. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/alife14/ch143.html