Articles tagged “optimization”

• Pooling and performance: what benchmarks and profiling may reveal When bench­mark­ing Or­seis, I dis­cov­ered that with repet­i­tive queries, its per­for­mance dras­ti­cal­ly de­cline. In some con­di­tions, it was more than ten times slow­er com­pared to the di­rect us­age of ADO.NET. This is to­tal­ly un­ac­cept­able for a li­brary which…
  profiling 5 performance 14 benchmark 1 optimization 3
• Users matter more than bytes and CPU cycles There is some­thing com­plete­ly wrong in de­vel­op­ers' na­ture to be ob­sessed with per­for­mance to the detri­ment of every­thing else. It seems even that this com­pul­sive ob­ses­sion is not some­thing we ac­quire with prac­tice, since it af­fects even be­gin­ner…
  interaction-design 10 short 50 rant 34 performance 14 optimization 3
• Why is positive premature optimization still wrong? When ju­nior pro­gram­mers do pre­ma­ture op­ti­miza­tion, it is easy to see how it could harm the pro­ject. They guess that a giv­en change would make their code faster, and since they don't mea­sure the ac­tu­al…
  profiling 5 performance 14 optimization 3 productivity 37