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Have I already mentioned that you DO need to understand execution plans?

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DO keep in mind that maintaining indexes has its own cost

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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

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in both these cases we can be 100% sure that we’ll be deserializing this state on the executable which is identical to the executable which serialized the state.

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Even when comparing with home-grown code with per-field serialization, our Ultra-Fast Serialization still wins (up to 1.5x-2x)

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Strictly speaking, for real-world computers, every algorithm which completes in a finite time can be said to be O(1)

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now the difference because of unfortunate ‘jumps’ over (uncached at the time) memory can lead to a 100x+ (!) performance difference. However, it is still O(1) and is rarely taken into account during performance analysis