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Hands-On High Performance with Go

By : Strecansky
Book Image

Hands-On High Performance with Go

By: Strecansky

Overview of this book

Go is an easy-to-write language that is popular among developers thanks to its features such as concurrency, portability, and ability to reduce complexity. This Golang book will teach you how to construct idiomatic Go code that is reusable and highly performant. Starting with an introduction to performance concepts, you’ll understand the ideology behind Go’s performance. You’ll then learn how to effectively implement Go data structures and algorithms along with exploring data manipulation and organization to write programs for scalable software. This book covers channels and goroutines for parallelism and concurrency to write high-performance code for distributed systems. As you advance, you’ll learn how to manage memory effectively. You’ll explore the compute unified device architecture (CUDA) application programming interface (API), use containers to build Go code, and work with the Go build cache for quicker compilation. You’ll also get to grips with profiling and tracing Go code for detecting bottlenecks in your system. Finally, you’ll evaluate clusters and job queues for performance optimization and monitor the application for performance regression. By the end of this Go programming book, you’ll be able to improve existing code and fulfill customer requirements by writing efficient programs.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Section 1: Learning about Performance in Go
7
Section 2: Applying Performance Concepts in Go
13
Section 3: Deploying, Monitoring, and Iterating on Go Programs with Performance in Mind

Matrix operations

Matrices are a good way to store a large amount of information in an efficient manner, but the manipulation of matrices is where the real value of matrices is derived from. The most commonly used matrix manipulation techniques are as follows:

  • Matrix addition
  • Matrix scalar multiplication
  • Matrix transposition
  • Matrix multiplication

Being able to perform these actions on matrices is important as they can help with real-world data manipulation at scale. We will take a look at some of these operations, as well as practical applications of them, in the following sections.

Matrix addition

Matrix addition is the method in which we add two matrices together. Perhaps we want to find the resulting value of the summation...