Abstract
Software performance is a topic rife with paradoxes, confusion, and mystery. To provide a few examples:
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Processor speed doubles every 18 months, but performance concerns never disappear.
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Two competing software platforms both show order-of-magnitude speed advantages over the other in benchmarks produced by their respective vendors.
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Languages and technologies are shunned due to their perceived lack of performance, but a precise measurement of the slowness is rarely produced, and the criticism of perceived slowness is discussed even if performance is not a project priority.
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Wienholt, N. (2004). Introduction. In: Maximizing .NET Performance. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0784-9_1
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