Lightning Talk: Pólya Performance Thinking
summary
Apply Polya’s four steps to real performance tradeoffs: understand and restate the context (requirements, data, unknown final design), then devise a plan using analogies, reductions, auxiliary problems, generalize/specialize and decompose and reassemble to isolate algorithmic choices, memory layout, vectorization/SIMD, caching, compile‑time offloading and execution strategy. Execute the chosen microbenchmarks and code paths, measure outcomes, reflect and iterate — expect most time stuck and only “a minute or two a year” of aha breakthroughs.
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