Thank you very much indeed.

Thank you.

It's great to be here.

So yeah

we're going to be talking today about some of the things that I know about how compilers

work, but sort of I'm going to view it through the lens of Compiler Explorer, which is the

website that I am most associated with and hopefully teach you a thing or two about both

compilers and how to view them in Compiler Explorer.

But yeah, so you've already done a great intro about me, so I'm going to just do a super

turbo version of this.

So yeah, my background originally, I used to make video games.

So since my teenage years in my bedroom, I used to make games.

And for the first 10

12 years of my career

I spent writing video games for Dreamcast

and PlayStation and PC and the early times in sort of the nineties.

I'm showing my age now.

And then I spent a brief stint at Google, where I learned a little bit more than just

trying to make things go super quick using, you know, C, maybe a bit of C++.

But it was mostly still sort of high performance on embedded devices.

So some of you might be old enough to have used the YouTube client on like the Symbian

mobile phones.

If you did, then you use my code.

That was what I was doing.

It was a wild west time before the the Androids and the iPhones came out.

And then as you've just heard, I'm now in the finance sector and I have been for the

last, gosh, 14 years.

Oh dear.

And so in finance

I've worked mostly with what I refer to as low latency trading

but

everyone else calls high frequency trading.

And so there's a sort of theme in all I've done in my entire professional career of making

things go as fast as we can with what we've got.

My side hobbies are writing emulators for the old computers that I had growing up.

And so you can go to various websites and see the online versions of those.

But yes, as you've just heard, really, the thing that I'm here for, the reason that anyone

knows who I am is Compiler Explorer.

We'll see a bit about Compiler Explorer in a second.

But yeah, Compiler Explorer has been around now for about 12, 13 years.

Is it 13?

Yeah, it'll be 13 years coming up soon.

It was the result of an argument I had at work with my then boss

who is now a good

friend of mine.

And we were arguing about whether or not we could use new C++ features in our code base.

We're very performance sensitive.

And he was like saying

we can't use this new for loop

like range for because it might