Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based. But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course! Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) Back-end servers.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Most Linux users cannot afford the amount of resource large enterprises like Google put into custom Linux performance tuning… For Google of course, there’s an economy of scale that makes all that effort worth it. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

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. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. PowerPoint or Google Slides). is access to hardware devices.

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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

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. 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. Talk about a hard target. Reliance Jio, mostly.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> Google spent more on the SoC for the Pixel 4a and enjoyed a later launch date, boosting performance relative to the A51.

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