March 2005 - Posts

Giving your customers a good deal
21 March 05 11:01 AM | ricom | 0 Comments   

Earlier today someone suggested that I read this entry from Cyrus . As a performance guy people basically expect me to veto every new idea that might grow the size of anything anywhere. I guess I surprise them when I don't. The fact is that it's very Read More...

Filed under: performance, design advice

I'll be in an MSDN Chat session tomorrow
08 March 05 07:24 PM | ricom | 2 Comments   

As part of the followup for the video that was posted last week MSDN is hosting another chatroom Q&A session. Please join me tomorrow at 1pm Pacific Time -- follow this link to the event information -- hope to see you there! (This event happened today Read More...

Filed under: performance

Class Specific Comments Plus Index of Conceptual Performance Content
08 March 05 01:17 PM | ricom | 0 Comments   

For a long time now I've been wanting to create a resource where you could put specific performance advice about specific classes in a way that's reasonable easy to find and so that others can contribute. I finally found a home for this on channel9's Read More...

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Designing .NET Class Libraries: CLR Performance Tips
04 March 05 09:56 AM | ricom | 11 Comments   

Last year I was one of the speakers at some internal training on how to build good libraries. We liked the series enough that we decided to tidy it up and offer it all as advice to the world. The talks have been coming out one a week for several weeks Read More...

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Common Sources of Processor Performance Penalties: Five Issues
01 March 05 03:25 PM | ricom | 15 Comments   

Modern processors run at incredibly high clock rates and can often execute multiple instructions concurrently. When things are going perfectly these machines plow through instructions at multiple billions per second, yet these maximums are rarely achieved Read More...

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