This is a brief introduction to optimization, both the hows and the whys. Details of individual tools and techniques are left for later articles, but a collection of hints and tricks is provided.
This article describes how to use the Massif heap profiler with GNOME applications. We describe how to invoke, interpret, and act on the output of Massif. The Swell Foop game is used as an example.
Disk seeks are one of the most expensive operations you can possibly perform. You might not know this from looking at how many of them we perform, but trust me, they are. Consequently, please refrain from the following suboptimal behavior:
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