High Performance Windows programs
November 11th, 2008Recently I wanted to go over again Rick Vicik papers on high performance programs on the Windows platform. These papers are a true Bible for anyone in need to write truly highly scalable and high performance server applications. They address the back end C/C++ programming and explain how to properly use the Windows threading, optimize I/O and specially the importance of data cache conscious programming, NUMA object allocations and access locality and impact of data sharing on performance. I do find however that many of the principles explained there apply just as well to C# and .Net programming. I wanted to refresh my memory on some issues so I searched for them and to my delight I found that Rick updated the papers for Vista and Windows 2008 and had posted them as a three part series on the Windows Performance blog and I wanted to share these with my blog audience:
March 20th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
[...] Writing high scale and high performance programs is a league of its own. Most techniques you learn prior to attempting something really big don’t work. Everything is different: memory allocation, thread management, how you do your I/O. Fortunately there are some excellent articles covering these topics and my favorite ones are the ones from Rick Vicik. [...]