Writing the Fastest Code, by Hand, for Fun

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Kazushige Goto is the John Henry of the information age, using hand-tuned code to help solve the toughest supercomputing problems.

At one point recently, Mr. Goto's software - collections of programs called subroutines - dominated the rarefied machines competing for the title of the world's fastest supercomputer. In 2003 his handmade code was used by 7 of the 10 fastest supercomputers.

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