The art of performance tuning has been around a very long time. Most people are aware of performance tuning with regard to activities such as race car driving. The race car driver, engineers, and team in general work together to make the car work as
Part I Introduction to Engineering for Performance Part II Designing for Performance Part III Application Performance and Scalability Part IV Database Server Performance and Scalability Part V Measuring, Testing, and Tuning
Hardware performance monitors provide detailed direct feedback about application behavior and are an additional source of information that a compiler may use for optimization. A JIT compiler is in a good position to make use of such information beca
it's a good book for Linux Performance and Tuning Guidelines: a) Operating system tuning methods b) Performance monitoring tools c) Performance analysis
Solaris™ Performance and Tools provides comprehensive coverage of the powerful utilities bundled with Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris, including the Solaris Dynamic Tracing facility, DTrace, and the Modular Debugger, MDB. It provides a systematic approac