Замечательная книга для серьезных системщиков

Solaris™ Application Programming is a comprehensive guide to optimizing the performance of applications running in your Solaris environment. From the fundamentals of system performance to using analysis and optimization tools to their fullest, this wide-ranging resource shows developers and software architects how to get the most from Solaris systems and applications.

Coverage includes

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      A discussion of the chip multithreading (CMT) processors from Sun and how they change the way that developers need to think about performance
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      A detailed introduction to the performance analysis and optimization tools included with the Solaris OS and Sun Studio compiler
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      Practical examples for using the developer tools to their fullest, including informational tools, compilers, floating point optimizations, libraries and linking, performance profilers, and debuggers
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      Guidelines for interpreting tool analysis output
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      Optimization, including hardware performance counter metrics and source code optimizations
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      Techniques for improving application performance using multiple processes, or multiple threads
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      An overview of hardware and software components that affect system performance, including coverage of SPARC and x64 processors


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