Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. With fixed hardware it’s easy to construct a linked list that will stay in L1, or will always require a trip to L2, or will always require a trip to main memory. One benchmark I wrote measured the L2 cache latency. Standard stuff.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. Conclusion I could say that times have changed and now the original 2004 reasons for omitting frame pointers are no longer valid in 2024.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Breaking that assumption allowed Ceph to introduce a new storage backend called BlueStore with much better performance and predictability, and the ability to support the changing storage hardware landscape. But let’s take a quick look at the changing hardware landscape before we go on… The changing hardware landscape.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. The answer is hardware interrupts. However the scheduler behavior changes dramatically in Windows 10 2004.

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. ve been working hard over the past year to improve storage density and bring down the costs of our underlying hardware platform.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression. The webp format was introduced by Google around 2010.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212