
Episode 497: Richard L. Sites on Understanding Software Dynamics
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Is Your Sophoare Running Too Slow?
As engineers we shift into doing a little bit of science and then shift back into engineering. When your sophoare is running too slowly, it's either not running, or it's running, but running slowly. If you have a programme this occasionally slow doing some operation, it could be because that programm is on the slow instances executing a whole lot more code. It goes off in some dsome submurtine call you weren't expecting to happen that only happens now. That's one choice. A second choice is it's executing exactly the same code as the fast instances, but there’s something interfering with that somewhere around the shared hardware. And the third choice is that
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