Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After years of standards discussion and the first delivered to other platforms in 2018, iOS 14.5 April 2018 , but not usable until several releases later). An extension to Service Workers that enables browsers to present users with cached content when offline. is access to hardware devices. Pointer Lock. Media Recorder.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. India became a 4G-centric market sometime in 2018. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. The Moto G4 , for example. 5G looks set to continue a bumpy rollout for the next half-decade.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Globally in 2018–2019, according to the IDC, 87% of all shipped mobile phones are Android devices. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby.js (React), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. Image credit: Addy Osmani ) ( Large preview ).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Memory might be durable, but… …it is expected that caches and registers will remain volatile. Moreover, for better performance, the processor may change the order in which writes reach the NVRAM, making it difficult for the NVRAM to even reflect a consistent prefix of the computation.

Efficiency 60

Efficiency Cache C++ Performance 60

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited. The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. KB, Brotlified).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. Aurora Parallel Query response time (for queries which can not use indexes) can be 5x-10x better compared to the non-parallel fully cached operations. The second and third run used the cached data.

Cache 46

Cache C++ AWS Airlines 46

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The Mozilla Internet Health Report 2018 states that — especially as the Internet expands into new territory — “sustainability should be a bigger priority.” how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Add onto that the yawning chasm between low-end and high-end device performance thanks to chip design factors like cache sizes, and it can be difficult to know where to set a device baseline. Their powers combined are going to fundamentally transform the optimal page-load for 2018 and beyond.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Randon ASCII

AUGUST 16, 2018

The slow scanning of CFG memory is actually fixed in Windows 10 RS4 (April 2018 Update), which briefly had me wondering if all of this investigation was pointless. The CFG memory block is best thought of a cache with bounded size. But it’s not. Well, that’s not quite true. MiB of CFG memory, and 59.2 Source code. Rabbit holes.

Programming 75

Programming Virtualization Code Processing 75