Tag: performance
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KISS: Hand crafted JSON is NOT faster than ObjectMapper
Premature optimisations are evil. Apart from being buggy, they might actually be slower than the industry standard.
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CPU scaling governors and you
What is your CPU being governed by? Should it be governed by it? Why? How? Here’s an outlook on the various CPU frequency governors, namely conservative, ondemand, powersave, userspace, and performance, that steps up and steps down the CPU: conservative Pros: very much alike the ondemand governor gracefully increases the stepping, unlike ondemand which sets…
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noatime System Boost
Is your system slow? Do you have to wait 6.2 seconds to start Firefox and other heavy applications? Well, what you need is the “noatime” filesystem mount option! What exactly happens when system files are read? They are written too! The system writes access times to the files causing unnecessary IO traffic between you and…