Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. There are, however, some good fallbacks which we can use that demonstrate energy usage.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. In the Sep 2014 the SQL Server CSS and Development teams performed a deep dive focused on scalability and performance when running on current and new hardware configurations.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. Before all was said and done, all of these people and more helped with various activities: · Eugene, Mike, Slava, Scott, Peter, Steve and others doing code reviews on my SQL Server and Host Extension changes. ·

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. is access to hardware devices. But perhaps counting APIs gives a distorted view?

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In this particular investigation, which spanned twenty months, we suspected hardware failure, compiler bugs, linker bugs, and other possibilities. Jumping too quickly to blaming hardware or build tools is a classic mistake, but in this case the mistake was that we weren’t thinking big enough.

Programming 79

Programming Hardware Cache Code 79

John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

In the latest (October 2016) revision of Intel’s Instruction Extensions Programming Reference , Intel has disclosed a fairly dramatic departure from these “traditional” approaches. With 2 FMA units that have 5-cycle latency, the code must implement at least 2*5=10 independent accumulators in order to avoid stalls.

Cache 40

Cache C++ Latency Hardware 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

For this page to be done loading it needs to be responsive to user input — the “interactive” in “Time to Interactive” Browsers process user input by generating DOM events that application code listens to. The true median device from 2016 sold at about ~$200 unlocked. Execute the script.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68