HP-UX 11i Tuning and Performance

Chapter 13. Designing Applications for Performance

Preceding chapters have dealt with system performance tuning, which is comparatively easy to accomplish. Designing the application with performance in mind is much more difficult, though doing so may have the largest impact on overall performance. You cannot always control every aspect of the design, especially if the application is already written or if the source code is unavailable. Unfortunately, too many application development organizations leave performance considerations until the end of the process. Features often have precedence over performance when development resources are assigned. However, designing an application for performance from the beginning of the development process will ...