Pro .NET Benchmarking: The Art of Performance Measurement

Description

Use this in-depth guide to correctly design benchmarks, measure key performance metrics of .NET applications, and analyze results. This book presents dozens of case studies to help you understand complicated benchmarking topics. You will avoid common pitfalls, control the accuracy of your measurements, and improve performance of your software. Author Andrey Akinshin has maintained BenchmarkDotNet (the most popular .NET library for benchmarking) for five years and covers common mistakes that developers usually make in their benchmarks. This book includes not only .NET-specific content but also essential knowledge about performance measurements which can be applied to any language or platform (common benchmarking methodology, statistics, and low-level features of modern hardware). What You'll LearnBe aware of the best practices for writing benchmarks and performance testsAvoid the common benchmarking pitfalls Know the hardware and software factors that affect application performanceAnalyze performance measurements Who This Book Is For .NET developers concerned with the performance of their applications Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv Introducing Benchmarking (Andrey Akinshin)....Pages 1-29 Common Benchmarking Pitfalls (Andrey Akinshin)....Pages 31-89 How Environment Affects Performance (Andrey Akinshin)....Pages 91-179 Statistics for Performance Engineers (Andrey Akinshin)....Pages 181-260 Performance Analysis and Performance Testing (Andrey Akinshin)....Pages 261-364 Diagnostic Tools (Andrey Akinshin)....Pages 365-399 CPU-Bound Benchmarks (Andrey Akinshin)....Pages 401-524 Memory-Bound Benchmarks (Andrey Akinshin)....Pages 525-574 Hardware and Software Timers (Andrey Akinshin)....Pages 575-650 Back Matter ....Pages 651-662