Report 5 - Compiling and optimising Laidlaw - my writeup on the research (and other aspects about this scholarship).
And there's a video (produced as part of my scholarship requirements), which can be seen below:
Compiling and optimising - effects of different flags on performance of C(++) applications
It is usually the fact that when a C program is compiled using the /O1, /O2 or with another optimisation setting, the performance increases. But what exactly in that flag makes all the difference? Turns out that the answer is not that obvious.