--- title: 101: Matt Godbolt | daily.dev description: This post features Matt Godbolt discussing early microprocessors, working in the games industry, performance optimization on modern x86 CPUs, and the compute... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/101-matt-godbolt-2935sonbf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 101: Matt Godbolt | daily.dev og:description: This post features Matt Godbolt discussing early microprocessors, working in the games industry, performance optimization on modern x86 CPUs, and the compute... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/101-matt-godbolt-2935sonbf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2935soNBF.png og:image:alt: 101: Matt Godbolt og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 101: Matt Godbolt **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This post features Matt Godbolt discussing early microprocessors, working in the games industry, performance optimization on modern x86 CPUs, and the compute infrastructure that powers the financial trading industry. It also covers his work on bringing YouTube to early mobile phones and the origin story of Compiler Explorer. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#computing-history](https://daily.dev/tags/computing-history), [#gaming](https://daily.dev/tags/gaming), [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/101-matt-godbolt-2935sonbf) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"101: Matt Godbolt","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/101-matt-godbolt-2935sonbf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/101-matt-godbolt-2935sonbf"},"datePublished":"2024-04-22T10:55:05.472Z","dateModified":"2025-09-03T02:13:06.560Z","description":"This post features Matt Godbolt discussing early microprocessors, working in the games industry, performance optimization on modern x86 CPUs, and the compute...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2b1bd1133ee84d35c8cbdb986bfae1dc?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2b1bd1133ee84d35c8cbdb986bfae1dc?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Lobsters","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lobsters","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--tl8v_Fku--/f_auto,t_logo/v1698841318/logos/lobste.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/101-matt-godbolt-2935sonbf","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"computing-history,gaming,performance","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lobsters","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"101: Matt Godbolt"}]} ```