3. Scientific Programming
Performance Optimization — Quiz
Test your understanding of performance optimization with 5 practice questions.
Practice Questions
Question 1
Which profiling technique instruments function entry and exit to measure exact execution time but may introduce significant overhead?
Question 2
In a program where 10\\% of execution is inherently serial, what is the theoretical maximum speedup on 16 parallel cores according to Amdahl's Law?
Question 3
Which code pattern in a loop commonly prevents the compiler from auto-vectorizing?
Question 4
What is false sharing in multithreaded programs?
Question 5
When is explicit software prefetching most beneficial for performance optimization?