Questions tagged [optimization]
Optimization is the process of improving an existing program to make it work more efficiently or/and using less resources. Remember this site is only for conceptual questions, so please ask only conceptual ones about optimization. If you want your specific code to get optimized, better ask the question on StackOverflow or CodeReview.SE.
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How do I find what's causing a task to be slow, when CPU, memory, disk and network are not used at 100%?
I'm currently analyzing a process that is considered too slow. In summary, it's a task that loads a lot of data from Microsoft SQL Server, performs some basic stuff on it, and creates a report. It ...
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Optimal way to match prioritized list of tasks with available workers
Problem Match prioritized tasks with suitable workers. Details Consider a task with following properties - type and size. Based on task type, tasks are prioritized. While a worker has following ...
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How can single thread execution speed further increase since frequency stagnates?
What are things that newer CPU can do to speed up single thread execution? multiple registers? (can compilers always benefit from it?) SIMD? (do compilers use SIMD without code annotation?) does a ...
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Should a null block be used for semantic purposes?
I was writing a procedure that is only applicable in a particular case, but it didn't feel right to enforce it by contract or raising exceptions, because there's no problem with calling it in other ...
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Optimize reservation system algorithm
Im am developing a logistics application and at the moment, I try to solve the following problem: In the system, there are multiple machines. Each machine has one or more skills. For example, machine ...
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Designing an optimization on throughput of EF.Core application
I am looking for feedback on a design problem I encountered when processing batches of db entries. The issue at hand is efficiency and throughput of an application. The application looks like this ...
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Better solutions than joining table for Many to Many?
Lets say I have students and classes which are 2 entities. A student can take many classes and a class can have many students. This would be a many to many relationship. To solve this with an RDBMS my ...
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How do function inlining and Tail Call Optimization affect call stack?
I've just accidentally came across this answer about inlined functions and I'd like to know how this affects call stack. But I can't add comments because I don't have enough rep so I decided to ask ...
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