Questions related to improving application performance, this can be range from selection software architecture to selection of algorithms.
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How can we perform automated performance testing?
How can we effectively manage our performance scripts? When the new codes checked in, the performance scripts should run under certain loads to measure how fast/slow it is.
So, any ideas for ...
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Why Should I Avoid Inline Scripting?
A knowledgeable friend recently looked at a website I helped launch, and commented something like "very cool site, shame about the inline scripting in the source code".
I'm definitely in a position ...
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What causes bad performance in consumer apps?
My Comcast DVR takes at least three seconds to respond to every remote control keypress, making the simple task of watching television into a frustrating button-mashing experience. My iPhone takes at ...
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Will LAMP meet the following needs?
I remember a few years back, when I had a web-site I wanted to develop, that many people recommended I go the LAMP route. Unfortunately, I never got around to studying/practicing that.
I'm currently ...
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Why profile applications using AOP?
When tuning performance in a web application, I am looking for good and light-weight performance profiling tools to measure the execution time for each method. I know that the easiest profiling method ...
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Speed of MySQL type index access vs. binary jump search on a huge file?
I am dead set on moving over to a MySQL database for some huge data sets I'm working with but right now I don't have the time. In the meantime I am curious about a technical performance issue ...
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Best practices to follow with database indexes [closed]
What are some DOs and DONTs for improving database performance using index?
A DO would be a case in which an index should be created, or another indexes related tip that will improve performance.
A ...
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PHP email blasts using a cron job
My PHP application needs to send product expiry notifications to customers everyday. I am thinking of:
A one-time cron job for a php script that identifies the customers from a table of 10000 rows ...
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How did you find the slow performance in your application?
What makes the web application perform and scale better is always a big topic. And finding the performance problems and tuning them is another...
Here is some my thoughts of how to "finding" ...
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How to get good scenario coverage in performance benchmarks?
If it is relatively easy to get good code coverage from profiling (because profiling tells you which functions are/aren't called, how many times, and with what parameters), how do I get good ...
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What are the characteristics for a good report generation software for reporting and tracking software benchmarking results?
This is an offshoot question from this answer to a previous question, where http://speed.pypy.org is highlighted as an example having a good presentation.
(However, it appears to me that the project ...
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How to apply OOP, SOLID principles and Design Patterns in a library which does parallel processing without the caller's knowledge?
I want to explore the contentions between the two hot topics: Clean code vs. Good performance.
(In progress ... please post comments to help me flush out the details of this question. Thanks.)
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Does profiling without benchmarking lead to micro-optimization?
Read first: For a definition of the two terms ("profiling" and "benchmarking") and the need for distinguishing them, please read this answer to a previous question.
I have to admit that until I saw ...
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Can software performance monitoring/profiling be automated to a high degree, as in unit testing?
Unit testing consists of executable code which exercise a certain functionality and then assert some conditions. The results are either Pass or Fail.
The objective is always to have all tests ...
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On access scans and Visual Studio
Where I work McAfee On Access scan is enforced to be on for all our machines.
Visual Studio 2010 isn't exactly the speediest program at times but combining a large website, several build ...
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Looking for web languages performance comparison
Not to long ago I was here on stack overflow and saw this great diagram of programming languages performance comparison, and now I can't find it...
Does anyone have a similar comparison? The two I'm ...
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The role of determination of the variable type (floating point or fixed point) in program performance
I know with changing the variable type, the speed of the program change. I want to understand the other effects of this change in the software performance.
I want to know if we use a floating point ...
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Performance issues when parsing code
I was wondering about performance issues when parsing a source file that is being edited by the user (for example, when you need to give a syntax highlight).
I think that the simplest approach is to ...
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What's your favorite bit-wise technique? [closed]
A few days ago, StackExchange member Anto inquired about valid uses for bit-wise operators. I stated that shifting was faster than multiplying and dividing integers by powers of two. StackExchange ...
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How does optimization make code “greener”?
It seems clear that whatever the language used, an optimized application consumes fewer resources than a poorly written application, and require fewer servers to manage a similar number of requests ...
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How to speed up PHP powered websites? [closed]
Many people are talking about somethings like accelerator, opcode, etc to speed up a website's performance. To be honest I do not know how to make any PHP website perform well and when do I need to ...
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Is it appropriate in a developer's job description to have “error free” as a key output?
As part of a review of all job descriptions, my company has decided to include the following as a key output:
website development completed on
time, within specification and error
free
Given ...
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What makes an application scalable?
I keep seeing in job postings that the applicant must have experience writing "scalable" applications. What makes an application scalable, and how do I know that my code can scale to millions of ...
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In term of performance : while , for … Loops VS recursion
What is better for performance to write the loop as linear e.g. for , while or
write it as recursion ?
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How should developer performance be measured? [duplicate]
In many companies there is a formal procedure of reviewing employees' work.
For example, a salesperson can stay she'll sell one million units at the beginning of the year. When she comes up for ...
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Current trends in Random Access Memory
As I know for now because of laws of Physics there will be not any tangible improvements in CPU cycles per second for the nearest future. However because of Von Neumann bottleneck it seems to not be ...
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Database in the cloud?
Some of my recent clients are asking for remote connections to the office server, for standalone work, etc, in winForm applications.
Since the concept of the web is remote connection to a server both ...
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How is performance testing integrated into your product lifecycle?
Do you do any performance testing in any repeatable and automated way? Do you trigger it as a part of CI builds? What tools do you use? How do you spot changes in trends?
I'm looking for how-tos and ...
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How to Structure Bonuses for Software Developers? [duplicate]
I am a software developer, and have been asked to define a bonus structure for myself by recommending the metrics that will determine my bonus. I think, once I have defined this bonus structure, there ...
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Improve address lookup usability and accuracy?
In my application,I have a feature like this:
The user wants to add a new address to the database. Before adding the address, he needs to perform a search(using input parameters like ...
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How can Agile methodologies be adapted to High Volume processing system development?
I am developing high volume processing systems. Like mathematical models that calculate various parameters based on millions of records, calculated derived fields over milions of records, process huge ...
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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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System response times — A good Service Level Agreement?
In order to view system performance, I have been asked by management to give page response times for a few key pages. I want to make sure I am giving a good picture of the overall health of the ...
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how do you manage application performance reviews
I have been trying to figure out ways to effectively do performance reviews before an install happens for all releases done by our team. Do you usually make this a part of code review process or do ...
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What will be a good python script (or your favorite language goes here) to test a system's performance and capabilities?
Let's say you're in a computer store looking at 10 laptops, you want to really compare the system's capabilities. What will be an efficient "your fav language goes here" script that will allow you to ...
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How to communicate with a co-worker that considers frameworks a performance hit
How can one sell an idea like "we should use jQuery because its highly optimized and cross browser compatible" or "entity framework is cool because its neat and takes care of our model automagically" ...
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Is slower performance of programming languages, really, a bad thing? [closed]
Here's how I see it.
There's machine code and it's all that computers needs in order to run something. Computers don't care about programming languages. It doesn't matter to them whether the machine ...
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What is JQuery performance compared to YUI, Dojo and other frameworks?
I have been using JQuery for quite sometime now and I'm pretty much happy with the performance.
I'm just wondering if there is any performance comparison between jQuery, YUI, Dojo, Prototype, ...
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Are DDD Aggregates really a good idea in a Web Application?
I'm diving in to Domain Driven Design and some of the concepts i'm coming across make a lot of sense on the surface, but when I think about them more I have to wonder if that's really a good idea.
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Programmer performance : based on location, timings
Do programmers perform better when working from office or from a location of their choice? Also do they work better with fixed timings compared to flexible hours?
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Programmer performance
I am a PHP programmer with 1 year of experience. As I am just starting my career, I am learning a lot of things now. I can say I am a little bit of a perfectionist.
When I am assigned a problem I ...
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Should you sacrifice code readability with how efficient code is?
Should you sacrifice code readability with how efficient code is?
e.g. 3 lines of code into 1 line.
I read in Code Craft by Pete Goodliffe that readability is key.
Your thoughts?
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How to query a very long list of properties fast
I have a structure for storing item properties on SQL Server:
ItemId PropertyId Value
1 1 a
1 2 b
2 1 a
2 2 5
Currently there are over 130000 ...
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At What Point Should You Start To Think About Performance?
As I'm building applications I find myself constantly asking if this is best way to perform or implement a certain functionality. Often, I'll post questions on stackoverflow or another forum desiring ...
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What makes a large and complex software product slow?
For a reason that is largely irrelevant, I installed Delphi 7 once again in such a long time. I have to say, I was completely blown away - in a way I haven't been for rather a while. This is not how I ...
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What design is best for data transformation?
My company's database makes available data to a lot of external applications. So I need to transform the same data to a lot of dynamic views. I can see that a former database developer had implemented ...
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Is Moore's law (empirically) the same for both memory capacity and processing speed?
Or, in other words, has memory and processing power increased over time around basically in the same rate, or we could say that one or the other has increased more? Has cost decreased in the same ...
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Books on improving JEE web application performance and responsiveness
Does anyone know of any good books on this topic? I did search on amazon but ones that I found are pretty old publications.
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Multithreaded UI desktop application issues
I am involved into development a rich UI project: desktop windows application. Application uses asynchronous invocations and in its turn it should be ready to process external messages (events). The ...
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How do you do ASP.Net performance testing?
Our team is in need of a performance testing process. We use ASP.Net (both web forms and MVC) and performance testing is not currently built into our projects. We occasionally do some ad-hoc analysis, ...
