The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

I was drawn in by the headline results here: This paper presents an analysis of how Linux’s performance has evolved over the past seven years… To our surprise, the study shows that the performance of many core operations has worsened or fluctuated significantly over the years. SOSP’19. Measuring the kernel. Headline results.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Higher is better.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. 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.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset. Advances in browser content processing.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance. In the U.S., This nets out to 2.32

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. 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.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The rest of the article presents some views on whether additional single thread performance is feasible, and if so, some methods for extracting that performance in light of potential technology changes. Studies have demonstrated that current generation OOO architectures extract significantly less ILP than is available in the programs.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. 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.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. For anyone benchmarking MySQL with HammerDB it is important to understand the differences from sysbench workloads as HammerDB is targeted at a testing a different usage model from sysbench. 10 rows in set (0.02

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Dr. Damon McDougall gave a short presentation on this study at the IXPUG 2018 Fall Conference ( pdf ) — I originally wrote these notes to help organize my thoughts as we were preparing the IXPUG presentation, and later decided that the extra details contained here are interesting enough for me to post it.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Getting started with Webpack can be tough though.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized , key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Large preview ). compared to early 2015.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145