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Faster remainders when the divisor is a constant: beating compilers and libdivide

Daniel Lemire

I believe that all optimizing C/C++ compilers know how to pull this trick and it is generally beneficial irrespective of the processor’s architecture. It has now been worked out in a paper to appear in Software: Practice and Experience called Faster Remainder by Direct Computation. return n * c < = c - 1 ; }.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

As ​​ the ​​ administrator of a SQL Server 2005 installation, ​​ you will find that ​​ visibility into ​​ the ​​ SQL Server ​​ I/O ​​ subsystem ​​ has been ​​ significantly increased.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Besides that, the numbers can vary greatly depending on many factors, so our goal here is just to provide a few benchmarks that give some sense of the magnitude of potential improvements. Recall the basic equation for enterprise profit: where Q is quantity sold, P is price, V denotes variable costs, and C denotes fixed costs.

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