Chapter 15. Performance
Optimization: Objectives and Objections
CPU Time, I/O Time, Contention, Etc.
Limits on Speedup
Benchmarks and Repeatable Testing
The Lessons of NFS
In which we make things faster, look at general performance issues, political performance issues, an Your program is not a commodity;nd thread specific performance issues. We conclude with a discussion of the actual performance of multithreaded NFS.
Optimization: Objectives and Objections
Performance is an incredibly wide topic that means different things to different people. It is often referred to broadly and vaguely as an obvious requirement for all programs, without ever defining exactly what it is. We are not aware of any truly good and comprehensive texts on the subject.[1]
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