Performance

A better responsive design nowadays becoming a challenge. To become a good competitor in the market, one should make their website UI design such that: It should be eye-catching for the users on the first-time visit to the website. Rather than having complex UI features, it should be easy to use with simple UI features. Developers should be more oriented towards the material design. Material design is currently the most popular front-end design trending. To make the website a better...

The malloc family of functions are critical for almost every serious application program. Its performance characteristics often have a big impact on the performance of applications. Given that the default malloc implementation needs to have consistent performance for all general cases, it makes available a number of tunables that can help developers tweak its behavior to suit their programs. About two years ago I had written an article on the Red Hat Customer Portal that described the high level design...

Now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is publicly available, we thought RHEL application developers would be interested in seeing how the new C/C++ toolchain compares to the equivalent in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 in terms of raw performance. The numbers are pretty surprising so stay tuned. But first, a little introduction to set the scene. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 GCC Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 shipped in November 2010 with gcc-4.4. As with all major new versions...