Good talk on performance culture
Plugging my own video, I think it's pretty entertaining for a talk a performance, even has some content. :)
http://gotdotnet.com/team/clr/about_clr_performance.aspx
The points from the key slides are
Rule #1: Measure
- Just thinking about what to measure will help you do a good job
- If you don’t measure you can be sure it will be slow, big, or whatever else you don’t want
- If you haven’t measured, your job’s not finished
Rule #2 : Do your homework
- Good engineering requires you to understand your raw materials
- What are the key properties of your Framework? Your processor? Your target system?
Performance Culture
1. Budget
- An exercise to assess the value of a new feature and the cost your customer would be willing to pay, not a technical assessment of what is possible
2. Plan
- Design and validate against the budget, this is a design plan and a risk assessment
3. Verify
- Measure the final results, discard failures without remorse or penalty, don’t make your customers live with them
