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Statistics with Confidence edit / delete
Susan's stats tutorial (which I first saw at ICARIS 2009). Highly recommended for students who're doing performance measurement.
to ag0803 benchmarking honours performance science significance statistics ... on 19 March 2014
Energy-efficient bcrypt cracking (Passwords^13 - PasswordsCon Bergen 2013) edit / delete
Keys/second/watt for various architectures. The manycore ones do very well -- they aren't fast as such but they're very power-efficient for the performance they get.
to bcrypt cryptography efficiency manycore parallel performance power ... on 18 February 2014
Fixing sluggish write performance of USB flash (thumb) drives | Old Computer Junk edit / delete
Tweaking filesystem alignment to match the flash block size can make a difference (presumably on USB sticks where the flash translation layer isn't smart enough to do this itself).
to flash io performance storage usb ... on 17 January 2014
Common Pitfalls in Writing Lock-Free Algorithms | MemSQL Blog | The Real-Time Analytics Platform edit / delete
Both in terms of correctness and performance.
to algorithm concurrency debugging lockfree performance ... on 24 October 2013
How 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL [LWN.net] edit / delete
Specifically because a concurrency change made a big difference to PostgreSQL's internal scheduler. Has anyone tried benchmarking CCSP/TBB/etc. across multiple Linux versions?
to benchmarking concurrency linux performance ... on 13 October 2012
Tutorial - Perf Wiki edit / delete
Decent overview of what perf can do. I've been using this a lot for benchmarking lately; it's pretty neat.
to benchmark linux perf performance software ... on 29 June 2012
The problem with prefetch [LWN.net] edit / delete
The benefits of just trusting the CPU.
to caching ce0813 cpu performance ... on 18 June 2011
Gallery of Processor Cache Effects edit / delete
Some nice simple examples of cache weirdness.
to cache cpu optimisation performance teaching ... on 31 August 2010
An even fancier top implementation.
to performance software systems top ... on 10 August 2010
AnandTech Bench (beta) edit / delete
Handy comparison between processors on a load of different (sadly somewhat desktop-centric) benchmarks.
to benchmarks cpu performance ... on 16 June 2009
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