Performance Engineering Laboratory

Our mission is to educate elite programmers and to do high-quality research related to any aspect of programming, performance programming in particular.

History

At the end of 1998, I received a grant from the Danish Natural Science Council which I could use to create this research laboratory. Today the laboratory is composed of two senior researchers (Amr and myself) and the students, who are writing their theses for us.

In performance engineering the goal is to improve the running time and space efficiency of programs. Before I took the term performance engineering in use, it had been used by the compiler community. In the algorithmics community the subject matter is often called algorithm engineering, but I prefer the term performance engineering since the study objects are programs, not only algorithms.

-Jyrki