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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 [Linux tunables] post. This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2015-2020: Overhead As part of production rollout I did many performance overhead tests, which I've described publicly before: The overhead of adding frame pointers to everything (libc and Java) was usually less than 1%, with one exception of 10%. The actual overhead depends on your workload.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

And today, we still have type in a digital context, but it travels through cables, wirelessly on smartphones, and in virtual reality glasses in 3D. Later on, in the 1980s, type started to be used in a digital context in computers. There are many different classifications of typefaces.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 Linux tunables post. This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

Speed 52
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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 [Linux tunables] post. This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

Speed 40
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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

compared to early 2015. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers. Faster devices on faster networks have virtually no stalls. Assets Optimizations.