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SKP's Java/Java EE Gotchas: Clash of the Titans, C++ vs. Java!

DZone

One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. There were languages I briefly read about, including other performance comparisons on the internet. Recently, I spent some time checking on the Performance (not a very detailed study) of the various programming languages.

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Why Browsers Get Built

Alex Russell

Examples include Internet Explorer 3-6 as well as Safari on Mac OS X and the first iPhone. If the web is just another fungible application running atop the internet (which the manifesto does center), then it's fine for the web to be frozen in time, or even shrink. native, OS-specific) platform and the hopefully weaker web platform.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

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.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

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. is access to hardware devices. This is as it should be. Converging Views.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Colleagues/Internet I love using Linux performance tools. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet.

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