Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. It shouldn't be 10%, unless it's cache effects. And for leaf routines (which never establish a frame), this is a non-issue.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

In 2015, Google published a blog post announcing Brotli and released its source code on GitHub. The service categorized all the optimizations in three groups consisting of several “Content,” “Delivery,” and “Cache” optimizations. We only cache hot files in memory at edge servers. Brotli’s beginning…. This is all so good.

Cache 79

Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

The Tick-Tock release cycle basically fell apart by about 2015 , as Intel was unable to move from a 14nm manufacturing process to a 10nm manufacturing process. I wrote a number of blog posts about this back in January 2018, including these: Checking Your SQL Server Instance for Spectre/Meltdown Patches.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. compared to early 2015. Shipped in Next.js and in Gatsby v2.20.7.

Performance 145

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