3 Performance limits and profiling
This chapter covers
- Understanding the limiting aspect of application performance
- Evaluating performance for the limiting hardware components
- Measuring the current performance of your application
Programmer resources are scarce. You need to target these resources so that they have the most impact. How do you do this if you don’t know the performance characteristics of your application and the hardware you plan to run on? That is what this chapter means to address. By measuring the performance of your hardware and your application, you can determine where it’s most effective to spend your development time.
Note We encourage you to follow along with the exercises for this chapter. The exercises can be found ...
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