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I want my Docker container to use more of the host's CPU resources
I have a DigitalOcean droplet on which I have deployed a Docker container (Docker version: 20.10.14), but my app is sometimes slow, therefore I would like to allocate more resources to it.
The droplet ...
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Can we reliably use unaligned scalars on contemporary hardware?
Processors have come a long way in their handling of unaligned data - from crashing at the very notion of it, through suffering severe penalties, all the way to having almost no impact.
I suppose it ...
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How specific is hardware optimization when building from source/how do I know?
How specific is hardware optimization when building from source and what should I look for in the documentation to decide if building for my hardware might be worth it?
From threads like this one I ...
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How to speed up my software development workflow? I'm using Visual Studio 2019 to build, compile, run tests for dotnet, C#, Docker containers, etc
I am primarily working with C#, dotnet and Visual Studio 2019 with extensions like Resharper enabled. Visual Studio with Resharper is a memory hog.
I currently have the following PC at home where I ...
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Comparison of build times on various hardware; why non-linear results?
Why do the compile times not vary significantly between different era CPUs, even though disk (NVMe vs. HDD) and CPU benchmarks vary significantly in performance?
Why does disabling hyperthreading ...
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In software programming, would it be possible to have both CPU and GPU loads at 100%?
This is a general question on a subject I've found interesting as a gamer: CPU/GPU bottlenecks and programming. If I'm not mistaken, I've come to understand that both CPU and GPU calculate stuff, but ...
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Cost of cache coherency/sharing data across multiple cores?
If I have two CPU cores, one is writing a particular cache line and the other core wishes to
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the same cache line, what are the costs (in cycles) for doing so?
I am a little unsure ...
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Is a 1 < 10 comparison less expensive than 1 < 1000000?
I just used ~1 billion as the count for a z-index in CSS, and was thinking about the comparisons that must go on. Is there a difference in performance on the ALU level in comparisons between very ...
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What is the meaning of the sentence "we wanted it to be compiled so it’s not burning CPU doing the wrong stuff."
I was reading this article. It has the following paragraph.
And did Scala turn out to be fast? Well, what’s your definition of fast? About as fast as Java. It doesn’t have to be as fast as C or ...
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