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performance annotated SQLite EXPLAINation visualizations using systemtap

For the Thunderbird 3.1 release cycle we are not just fixing UX problems but also resolving various performance issues.  The key to defeating performance problems, like the key to defeating bad guys in movies, is to make sure they are dead.  If you want to fight the bad guy again, you can just assume that [...]

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2010 04 06 Andrew Sutherland Debugging
Mozilla
Program Execution
Thunderbird
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Using VMWare Record/Replay and VProbes for low time-distortion performance profiling

The greatest problem with performance profiling is getting as much information as possible while affecting the results as little as possible.  For my work on pecobro I used mozilla’s JavaScript DTrace probes.  Because the probes are limited to notifications of all function invocations/returns with no discretion and there is no support for JS backtraces, the [...]

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2009 08 03 Andrew Sutherland Debugging
Program Execution
Thunderbird
Visualizing Comments (2)