Introduction to week 4
In this week you will learn about best practices for programming. You will also see how you can document your code, and generate nice-looking HTML or PDF.
Performance is of course very important in scientific computing and you will learn about various aspects that influence the runtime efficiency of an application. Vectorization and caches will be discussed.
You will also learn how to use a profiler to identify the hotspots in your application, so that you know what to concentrate on when you try to improve the efficiency.
Finally, as mentioned in a previous week, file I/O is an important aspect of the overall performance of scientific computations, so you will learn about more efficient ways to read and write your data to files.
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