The USE Method edit / delete

"For every resource, check utilization, saturation, and errors."

to ag0803 analysis benchmarking debugging networking performance ... on 24 August 2014

C++11/14 idioms I use every day | Seshbot Programs edit / delete

Generally useful (rather than obscure) features.

to ag0700 ag0803 c++ c++11 c++14 language-design ... on 24 August 2014

Acquiring high-resolution time stamps (Windows) edit / delete

For AG0803 students: here's how to get a better timing reference.

to ag0803 benchmark timer timing win32 ... on 24 August 2014

A concrete illustration of practical running time vs big-O notation - The Old New Thing - Site Home - MSDN Blogs edit / delete

One for AG0803 students: why algorithmic complexity isn't everything in a world with complex memory architectures.

to ag0803 complexity data-structures memory optimisation performance ... on 13 August 2014

mikeash.com: Friday Q&A 2014-06-06: Secrets of dispatch_once edit / delete

Nice worked example of how to implement dispatch_once.

to ag0803 atomics c++ concurrency threading ... on 26 July 2014

Floating-Point Determinism | Random ASCII edit / delete

"My hobby: injecting code into other processes and changing the floating-point rounding mode on some threads".

to ag0700 ag0803 floating-point numeric ... on 01 July 2014

Simple, Fast, and Practical Non-Blocking and Blocking Concurrent Queue Algorithms edit / delete

"Drawing ideas from previous authors, we present a new non-blocking concurrent queue algorithm and a new two-lock queue algorithm in which one enqueue and one dequeue can proceed concurrently." From 1996.

to ag0803 concurrency data-structures nonblocking queue ... on 04 June 2014

SSE – Vectorizing conditional code | Félix Abecassis edit / delete

An example of using GCC's vectorisor.

to ag0803 gcc optimisation vectorisation ... on 02 June 2014

Blosc edit / delete

"Blosc is a high performance compressor optimized for binary data. It has been designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than the traditional, non-compressed, direct memory fetch approach via a memcpy() OS call." This is very neat -- it's a compressed data format designed so that you can decompress it into cache very quickly. AG0803 students take note!

to ag0803 cache compression memory optimisation python ... on 28 April 2014

Improving Your App's Performance with PerfView - .NET Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs edit / delete

oprofile-style profiler for Windows. AG0803 students might like to try this out.

to ag0803 profiler software windows ... on 28 April 2014

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