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New Parallel Capabilities of the Visual Studio 2010 Profiler

October 21, 09 //
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Visual Studio 2010 (currently in beta) includes new Parallel Performance Analysis tools. The new Profiler is a must-have tool for Developers interested in designing new “many-core” parallel-computing applications. Join James as he illustrates the profiler, profiling-options, and concurrency visualization techniques.

Check-out the following additional resources:
 - The MSDN Parallel Computing Dev-Center
 - Visual Studio 2010 on Learning Center
 - Download Visual Studio 2010 beta2
 - Hazim Shafi’s Blog on Windows Parallel Performance Tools

Rico Mariani: Inside Visual Studio Beta 2 – Performance and Reliability

October 20, 09 //
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I caught up with the great Rico Mariani, Visual Studio’s Chief Software Architect, after his keynote at a VS partner conference held on the Microsoft campus. He tells us all about the improvements in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. Rico and team have taken the performance and reliability of Visual Studio to new levels in this release. Gone are the days of synchronous assembly and COM component reference look-ups (woo hoo!!!). Gone are the long start up times. Gone are roughly 90% of the performance bottlenecks that slowed down the development experience inside the VS2010 Beta 1 IDE. The Visual Studio development team worked their tails off to improve perf and reliability across the board. Tune in to learn about what they did and what they will do prior to RTM. Truly excellent engineering goes on in building 42. Well done, team!

Rico also discusses his final blog post in his VS history series, a 5,000 word up to the minute historical piece. After watching Tina’s great VS documentary series, Rico decided to add his own perspective in a 10 part blog post blitz. Great stuff!

Enjoy.

Lisp for High-Performance Transaction Processing

August 18, 09 //
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Lisp for High-Performance Transaction Processing
Google Tech Talk August 17, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Daniel L. Weinreb, I will talk about the use of Lisp at ITA Software. Why do we use Lisp? How do we make that work? Why is Lisp suitable for this kind of application? I will also talk about the future of Lisp, which has three tracks: Common Lisp, Scheme, and Clojure. At ITA software, we are building a new airline reservation system, suitable for major airlines, including flagship carriers. Many airlines are using software forked from the …
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David Fields and Bill Karagounis: Inside Windows 7 – Reliability, Performance and PerfTrack

August 10, 09 //
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PerfTrack is the feedback and monitoring system inside of Windows 7 that performs measurements on, well, all things related to the overall performance of the OS, especially as it relates to system responsiveness to user actions. So, when you click on something (an icon, a folder name, etc…), how long does it take for the user to receive an expected reaction from the system? What are the bottlenecks that lead to a poor experience (user-observable latency) when using some feature in Windows? Is the root problem in the design of the feature itself or with the underlying OS? Enter PerfTrack.

Here, Development Manager David Fields and Group Program Manager Bill Karagounis share their wisdom and experience in the world of OS performance analysis. David and Bill explain how PerfTrack works and we digress into an interesting conversation about power management.

PerfTrack is an example of a technology that provides incredibly important real-world information to Windows engineers that can be used to solve performance problems in Windows.

Enjoy!

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