TLDR: * To hit your performance goals, you first need to define your goals. Consider what you’re trying to accomplish. * While throughput numbers increase over

TLDR: * To hit your performance goals, you first need to define your goals. Consider what you’re trying to accomplish. * While throughput numbers increase over time, latency has only inched downwards. Thus, on most typical programs, you’re likely to find yourself latency-bound before being throughput-bound. * A profiler is not needed to achieve the desired performance characteristics. An understanding of the problem, an understanding of the constraints, and careful attention to the generated code is all you need.