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OLTP DB Optimizations 101 - Thinking in Terms of Execution Plans
August 22, 2017 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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to realize how our queries are working – we need to start thinking in terms of so-called “execution plans”.
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it can be faster to use Table Scan rather than Index-Scan+fetch over such a low-selectivity index
Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. VII-IX
Read moreAllocator for (Re)Actors with Optional Kinda-Safety and Relocation
August 15, 2017 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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Safe with relocation’ mode will allow us to eliminate dreaded ‘external fragmentation’ – which tends to cause quite a bit of trouble for long-running systems
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For a long while, I have been a strong proponent of message-passing mechanisms over mutex-based thread sync for concurrency purposes
Filed under: On.System Architecture(Re)ActorsOn.ProgrammingOptimizations
Read moreThe Importance of Back-of-Envelope Estimates
August 8, 2017 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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trying to optimize out a 3e-7 performance hit is very rarely worth the trouble.
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With 4S/4U boxes having typical MTBFs of 3–5 years, the next question we should ask ourselves, is “Hey, will we really be able to write software which crashes much more rarely than that?”
Filed under: On.System ArchitectureRequirement analysisDesign decisions
Read more(Not Really So) New Niche for C++: Browser!?
August 1, 2017 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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asm.js has invented its own instruction set, which can be still seen as an instruction set of a CPU, at least from the point of view of a C++ compiler.
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As asm.js is a strict subset of JavaScript – it will run even if there is no special support for asm.js in browser.
Filed under: On.ProgrammingProgramming Languages
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