Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. The answer is hardware interrupts. timeGetTime calls ReadInterruptTick which at its core just reads this 64-bit counter.

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available."

Java 137

Java Cache Google Hardware 137

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. But the core of the process is simple, and hasn’t changed much since the early days of web testing. What’s required?

Games 141

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 141

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. Now let’s stretch our imagination and consider a second method of high availability, ala Citus. The best way to describe the Citus way of doing things is to reflect how data is managed by a disk RAID array.

C++ 98

C++ Database Storage Testing 98

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. © ​​ 2004 Microsoft Corporation. ​​ All rights reserved.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression. Following are the codecs and/or configurations tested and reported against the baseline in the form of BD rate.

Code 220

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 220

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52