Compiler Confidential - GoingNative2013

Here is another talk from Eric Brumer also at GoingNative 2013
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/Compiler-Confidential


Topics include:
Modern CPUs, compiler optimizations, instruction pipelines, code generation, vectorization.

If you want to know how a compiler works, this is definitely one of the talks you have to watch.