The thesis I was talking about is about generated code. Author of thesis is one of the authors of Blitz++: http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/ http://www.oonumeri

The thesis I was talking about is about generated code. Author of thesis is one of the authors of Blitz++: http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/ http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/ The thesis came from his frustration when seemingly innocent changes provoke significant degradation in performance.