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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? 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. include <sys/time.h>

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others. He is known for speaking at conferences such as Velocity and Akamai Tech Day, as well as various meetups for performance-minded developers. Ilya Grigorik. Ilya Grigorik.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? 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. include <sys/time.h>

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A peculiar throughput limitation on Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing)

John McCalpin

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.

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