Rico Mariani's Performance Tidbits
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Date: 05/22/2017
My last day at Microsoft will be tomorrow, 3/24/2017. I really did want to get to some of the old...
Date: 03/23/2017
I just discovered that there are all kinds of comments pending approval, some from several months...
Date: 02/03/2017
A while ago I provided this local symbol server proxy you could use to get just the symbols you...
Date: 02/03/2017
Last night I wrote about my new scholarship (previous post) Today I have something to ask. I know my...
Date: 12/11/2015
Just a few minutes ago I signed my part of the papers to create the Rico Mariani Women in Computer...
Date: 12/10/2015
A good way to get a quick rise out of me is to tell me how you’re going to just delete some...
Date: 10/10/2015
"I couldn’t possibly list [...] all the crucial changes we made to make...
Date: 07/29/2015
This link has the details....
Date: 07/23/2015
If you want to use regular expressions in production code the most important thing you must know...
Date: 07/20/2015
About two months ago I had an extraordinary opportunity to talk to some Great People in the context...
Date: 06/07/2015
About 6 weeks ago I prepared a talk on some of my experiences addressing performance problems in the...
Date: 05/31/2015
One of my readers asked if I had any particular plans around memory density for Visual Studio to go...
Date: 01/02/2015
I wrote this a long time ago. It's very interesting to me how applicable this is today. And how it...
Date: 12/23/2014
Use Symbol Filtering to get symbols you care about from your server instead of getting the kitchen sink
One of the most annoying things about working with performance traces is that they include...
Date: 12/08/2014
I wrote a message much like the below yesterday and I kept cracking up once I had started. And...
Date: 12/03/2014
There were some requests for an example of my unit testing strategy so made up this fragment and...
Date: 11/27/2014
[I added this example in a later post] There are lots of pieces of code that are embedded in places...
Date: 11/20/2014
[All the parts in this history] I could spend a long time writing about programming the PET and its...
Date: 11/19/2014
I hesitate to bring this up but there’s no sense hiding it. For the last year I’ve been...
Date: 11/09/2014
I wrote some career advice a few weeks ago now, those few points are largely distilled from talks...
Date: 11/09/2014
I recently received a customer question that boiled down to the oft-encountered binary floating...
Date: 10/15/2014
At the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing there are many attendees offering and looking...
Date: 10/09/2014
[Note: I accidently pasted an x64 result in place of an x86 result. As it happens the point I was...
Date: 09/29/2014
[ Note: Mystery of the shuffling is solved, the rand() method I was using returns only numbers...
Date: 09/28/2014
I switched to git about 3 years ago because the portability was so great. Moving work between...
Date: 09/26/2014
It seems like I get pretty much the same questions all the time. A common one is, "Rico can you tell...
Date: 09/24/2014
Q: My application starts slowly, I want to preload it to avoid that problem. Should I be worried? A:...
Date: 08/29/2014
Huge words of caution: you can bury yourself in this kind of stuff forever and for my money it is...
Date: 08/29/2014
This sort of solution managment brings welcome relief.
Date: 03/21/2012
I thought I'd follow up on my last technical post with a few extra details about the Marble pattern,...
Date: 02/20/2012
The Building Windows 8 blog has an interesting article on how we measure IE perf. Recommended...
Date: 02/17/2012
I wish I could remember where I first read it because perhaps it deserves attribution. But many...
Date: 02/02/2012
I still get questions that amount to "should I ngen my <something>" from time to time and the...
Date: 01/31/2012
This series can still be found here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649152.aspx While...
Date: 01/11/2012
Many problems you will face are actually the building data access layer, sometimes thinly disguised,...
Date: 01/10/2012
Many of you have commented that I've been kind of quiet lately. This was largely a reflection of my...
Date: 11/12/2011
I know I haven't posted for a while; I'm hoping that will change soon. However in the mean time my...
Date: 09/20/2011
I don’t know that it is possible to write anything like a unitary software system in a way...
Date: 09/27/2010