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Fostering a time period where everyone can try any ideas to make software run faster?
Sometimes software performance tricks are found from a methodological and thorough search. Sometimes it requires divergent thinking and courage to try crazy ideas. Sometimes an idea is just the ...
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How long can it take for a screen to appear before it's considered a performance issue?
I am involved with the development of a Windows application that has various screens. One of them takes ten seconds to appear with no spinner or other indication that the screen is loading. I consider ...
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How often is software speed evident in the eyes of customers?
In theory, customers should be able to feel the software performance improvements from first-hand experience.
In practice, sometimes the improvements are not noticible enough, such that in order to ...
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Does object-orientation really affect algorithm performance?
Object orientation has helped me a lot in implementing many algorithms. However, object-oriented languages sometimes guide you in "straightforward" approach and I doubt if this approach is always a ...
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Is performance engineering a different specialization from general software development?
A major objective of software development is to focus on delivery of features implemented in good quality code.
Knowledgeable developers are supposed to write software with good performance to the ...
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How to best approach planning and budgeting of software performance optimization efforts?
There is a software system that has been with the client for some time now. If is feature-rich, mature, complex enterprise application that client uses in production. Due to the rapid expansion of the ...
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Strategy to find bottleneck in a network
Our enterprise is having some problem when the number of incoming request goes beyond a certain amount.
To make things simpler, we have N websites that uses, amongst other, a local web service. This ...
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Performance analysis of C++ programs
How can I measure the performance of my C++ programs using C++?
Specific metrics I want to measure are:
Memory used (space)
Duration taken (time)
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Beginners guide to developing optimization software [on hold]
I am novice in "serious" programming i.e. applications that deal with real-life applications and software projects that go beyond school assignments.
My interests include optimization, operations ...
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Any good examples of visualizations of performance test data?
I run some basic performance tests in C# on simple methods, but there are also legacy monolithic pieces written in C# as well as other languages. So, when testing, I often end up working with a black ...
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Count a row VS Save the Row count after each update
I want to know whether saving row count in a table is better than counting it each time of the proccess.
Quick Example : A visitor goes to Group Clan, the page displays clan information and Members ...
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Why does my web site load fast locally and at home but slowly for our customer? [closed]
I'm having a frustrating problem that I need some advice with. I've written a ASP.Net web forms application that retrieves its data through a wcf web service. When I run it locally either on my ...
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How do I create a web service with high amounts of traffic that works effectively with lots of different users? [closed]
I have created web services before that are used by a small number of users but have a new project that would have lots of users.
For each user that uses the services, this is what they would do:
1) ...
