Matt Godbolt joins to talk about early microprocessors, working in the games industry, performance optimization on modern x86 CPUs, and the compute infrastructure that powers the financial trading industry. We also discuss Matt's work on bringing YouTube to early mobile phones, and the origin story of Compiler Explorer, Matt's well-known open source project and website.
Matt's Site: https://xania.org/
Matt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/godbolt/
Matt on X: https://twitter.com/mattgodbolt
Matt on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@mattgodbolt
Matt on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mattgodbolt.bsky.social
Detailed Show Notes: https://microarch.club/episodes/101
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The art, science, and history of processor design.