Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. In the recent MySQL 8.0.16 mysqld] datadir=/home/mysql/mysql-8.0.16/mysql-8.0.16-linux-glibc2.12-x86_64/data

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked. He had it up and running on Wednesday.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In particular on Intel Scalable Processors (Skylake architecture) the PAUSE instruction is much longer than previous architectures and therefore calling UT_RELAX_CPU can consume a lot more time resulting in reduced performance. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. innodb_file_per_table.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40