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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. In her book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical. High Performance Browser Networking. Time is Money. Designing for Performance.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course!

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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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