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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 [Linux tunables] post. #include <sys/time.h>

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Web Performance Bookshelf

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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. The best practices to build and deploy your files to a production environment, and tools that can help you find problems once your site goes live. Designing for Performance.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 [Linux tunables] post. include <sys/time.h>

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 Linux tunables post. Running this on the two systems saw similar results.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

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In real-life world, most products aren’t even close: an median bundle size today is around 417KB , which is up 42% compared to early 2015. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

compared to early 2015. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers.