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. Having done this before, it reminds me of CSS programming: you make a little change here and everything breaks, and you spend hours chasing your own tail.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

One of the important attributes of their design was easy and rapid deployment across an existing fleet. These techniques work well for scientific programs that are dominated by arrays. However, they are ineffective on object-based programs because objects do not fall neatly into fixed-size blocks and have a more irregular layout.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

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

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine learning research ideas. Challenges optimising whole programs. “ Challenges evolving programming languages. “ Challenges evolving programming languages.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

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. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The phenomenon of plateauing ST performance is a consequence of design constraints – primarily power. The Thermal Design Power (TDP) of a SOC in a current Ultrabook design is constrained to 15W. In view of this it is perhaps worth pondering why ST performance growth has stalled and some options to revive the growth.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies. Mirroring can be implemented at a software or hardware level.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Hardware performance counter results for a simple benchmark code calling Intel’s optimized DGEMM implementation for this processor (from the Intel MKL library) show that about 20% of the dynamic instruction count consists of instructions that are not packed SIMD operations (i.e., addl $1, %eax vfmadd213pd %zmm16, %zmm17, %zmm29.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

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. Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. Front-end developers are cursed to program the Devil's computer.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. This is different from ​​ the reference count design ​​ that was ​​ used in SQL Server 7.0 and ​​ 2000.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To help our customers manage ongoing data explosion, we have designed many of the core components over the last few years. I mean that as your scale grows then design patterns and strategies that used to work 2 years ago and allowed you to go from defensive to offensive positioning may buckle under pressure or becomes cost-prohibitive.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52