Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Apart from library code, maybe your application doesn't have frame pointers either, in which case everything is broken. 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%.

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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. It’s fifteen lines of code. The new undocumented reality.

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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.

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Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Now welcome to the hardware jungle. For the first time in the history of computing, mainstream hardware is no longer a single-processor von Neumann machine, and never will be again. The free lunch is over. In 2005, however, mainstream computing hit a wall. iPad 2, Playbook, Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet) and smartphones (e.g.,

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. © ​​ 2004 Microsoft Corporation. ​​ All rights reserved.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Brief overview of image coding formats The JPEG format was introduced in 1992 and is widely popular. This is followed by quantization and entropy coding. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. Webp is based on intra-frame coding from the VP8 video coding format.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ The following ​​ code ​​ example ​​ shows ​​ the setting ​​ of ​​ values ​​ in ​​ illegal ​​ array positions. scid=kb ; en-us;828339 ) on the Microsoft Web site.

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