Target the parts of your applications that take the most time, by Martyn Honeyford "Improving the performance of your applications is rarely a wasted effort, but it's not always clear which functions the program is spending most of its execution time on. Learn how to pinpoint performance bottlenecks using gprof for both user-space and system calls on Linux®."
Women who navigate around 3D computer-generated environments for a living - or even for fun - are having their style cramped by ultra-narrow computer displays and graphics software that favours men.
Developed programmes that apply genetic algorithms to blocks of code/circuits/ideas, instead of starting from a crude framework and building on top of that. Fascinating, logical, and apparently works. in Popular Science