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Andrew Sutherland
Personal blog · visophyte.org/blogprogrammingsystems
Andrew Sutherland writes visophyte: shiny? shiny., a personal blog at visophyte.org about programming and systems. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Performance annotated SQLite EXPLAINation visualizations using systemtap”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Andrew Sutherland's posts on Firefox memory and performance tooling, such as the about:nosy add-on and about:memory. The comments cite these posts and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Performance annotated SQLite EXPLAINation visualizations using systemtap2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-04-06
- /blog/2012/02/04/aboutnosy-is-aboutmemory-with-charts-helps-you-lay-blame-more-easily/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-13
What Hacker News says?
about:memory is intended to be a tool for developers and highly technical users. But we're getting close to the point where per-tab memory reporting will be feasible, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687724 , which is currently blocked on some other infrastructure changes. Once that's in place, we can slap a friendlier UI on top, something more like the about:nosy add-on ( http://www.visophyte.org/bl…
Comment linking /blog/2012/02/04/aboutnosy-is-aboutmemory-with-charts-helps-you-lay-blame-more-easily/
on “Mozilla: Are We Slim Yet?”Submitted Performance annotated SQLite EXPLAINation visualizations using systemtap as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI find EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN a lot more useful to figuring out perf issues with sqlite. You can immediately see the table scan and tweak the query until it goes away. It still doesn't EXPLAIN everything, like - why did it choose not to use an index? - why does it need to do a scan of another table (oh there is FK) - which part of the query plan is actually the expensive one. For that you need to go to something like th…
Comment linking /blog/2010/04/06/performance-annotated-sqlite-explaination-visualizations-using-systemtap/
on “Squeezing Performance from SQLite: EXPLAINing the Virtual Machine”Submitted Gaudily syntax-highlighted code listings in (archer) gdb as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI recently read about a Mozilla authored extension that gives you more performance insight. I think some features only work with special FF builds right now, though. :) http://www.visophyte.org/blog/2012/02/04/aboutnosy-is-aboutm...
Comment linking /blog/2012/02/04/aboutnosy-is-aboutmemory-with-charts-helps-you-lay-blame-more-easily/
on “Firefox 2012 Roadmap published”Submitted Fighting non-deterministic unit tests through causality tracking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Webpd: A Polymer-based web UI for the beets music library manager as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance annotated SQLite EXPLAINation visualizations using systemtap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance-annotated SQLite EXPLAIN visualizations using SystemTap as a story · 1 points
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