Rico Mariani's Performance Tidbits

7/17/2020

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Author: ricom Date: 06/07/2015

About 6 weeks ago I prepared a talk on some of my experiences addressing performance problems in the...

Author: ricom Date: 05/31/2015

One of my readers asked if I had any particular plans around memory density for Visual Studio to go...

Author: ricom 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...

Author: ricom Date: 12/23/2014

One of the most annoying things about working with performance traces is that they include...

Author: ricom Date: 12/08/2014

I wrote a message much like the below yesterday and I kept cracking up once I had started. And...

Author: ricom Date: 12/03/2014

There were some requests for an example of my unit testing strategy so made up this fragment and...

Author: ricom Date: 11/27/2014

[I added this example in a later post] There are lots of pieces of code that are embedded in places...

Author: ricom Date: 11/20/2014

[All the parts in this history] I could spend a long time writing about programming the PET and its...

Author: ricom Date: 11/19/2014

I hesitate to bring this up but there’s no sense hiding it. For the last year I’ve been...

Author: ricom Date: 11/09/2014

I wrote some career advice a few weeks ago now, those few points are largely distilled from talks...

Author: ricom Date: 11/09/2014

I recently received a customer question that boiled down to the oft-encountered binary floating...

Author: ricom Date: 10/15/2014

At the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing there are many attendees offering and looking...

Author: ricom Date: 10/09/2014

[Note: I accidently pasted an x64 result in place of an x86 result. As it happens the point I was...

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[ Note: Mystery of the shuffling is solved, the rand() method I was using returns only numbers...

Author: ricom Date: 09/28/2014

I switched to git about 3 years ago because the portability was so great. Moving work between...

Author: ricom 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...

Author: ricom Date: 09/24/2014

Q: My application starts slowly, I want to preload it to avoid that problem. Should I be worried? A:...

Author: ricom Date: 08/29/2014

Huge words of caution: you can bury yourself in this kind of stuff forever and for my money it is...

Author: ricom Date: 08/29/2014

This sort of solution managment brings welcome relief.

Author: ricom Date: 03/21/2012

I thought I'd follow up on my last technical post with a few extra details about the Marble pattern,...

Author: ricom Date: 02/20/2012

The Building Windows 8 blog has an interesting article on how we measure IE perf. Recommended...

Author: ricom Date: 02/17/2012

I wish I could remember where I first read it because perhaps it deserves attribution. But many...

Author: ricom Date: 02/02/2012

I still get questions that amount to "should I ngen my <something>" from time to time and the...

Author: ricom Date: 01/31/2012

This series can still be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649152.aspx While...

Author: ricom Date: 01/11/2012

Many problems you will face are actually the building data access layer, sometimes thinly disguised,...

Author: ricom Date: 01/10/2012

Many of you have commented that I've been kind of quiet lately. This was largely a reflection of my...

Author: ricom 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...

Author: ricom Date: 09/20/2011

I don’t know that it is possible to write anything like a unitary software system in a way...

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