Jonathan HardwickImproving the performance of Visual StudioPerformance analysis of multi-core systems- June 19, 2008 One of our main roles in DevDiv Performance Engineering is to help other teams with performance investigations that is, to help them understand why their code isnt running fast enough. Recently we ran a little side project that was unusual in two respects: first, we were analyzing performance just for our own curiosity, and second, the investigation was triggered because Visual Studio benchmarks seemed to be running faster than expected on our new multi-core hardware. You might think that in...http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh/archive/2008/06/19/performance-analysis-of-multi-core-syst... Other Resources for Problems with Offline Files- June 14, 2008 Of all my blog posts, the one that generates the most reliable stream of comments is User comments about offline files. All my other blog topics get mild interest, but what people really, REALLY want to know is how to get offline files working again when it stops. I just cant argue with the numbers involved. So Im really happy that a couple of other blogs have taken up the slack and have been posting about offline files. Apologies to both for only just noticing :) First, the Windows Core File.http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh/archive/2008/06/14/other-resources-for-problems-with-offli... Moving on - to Developer Division Performance Engineering- June 6, 2008 With the release of SCCP 2007 I've now been through two complete product cycles of what started out as a little research project called "Indy" -- and that seems like more than enough! So I've moved over to the Performance Engineering team in Microsoft's Developer Division. The division's flagship product is Visual Studio, and our blogger-in-chief is Somasegar. Within the division, the Performance Engineering team makes sure that when we ship a new release of Visual Studio, it will...http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh/archive/2008/06/05/moving-on-to-developer-division-perform... |