I have a site with several custom taxonomies, and have found that one of the slowest parts of the site is attempting to query with an OR across several...
I’ve been wondering this for some time. As the title say, which is faster, the actual function or simply raising to the half power? UPDATE This is not a...
Imagine the code: public class obj { // elided } public static Dictionary<string, obj> dict = new Dictionary<string, obj>(); Method 1 public static obj FromDict1(string name) { if (dict.ContainsKey(name))...
We have to build Strings all the time for log output and so on. Over the JDK versions we have learned when to use StringBuffer (many appends, thread safe)...
I own a wordpress installation, and Updated to 3.4.1. After the upgrade, I got a very strange slowdown to my wordpress. After all, I used the define('SAVEQUERIES', true); in...
In Python, which data structure is more efficient/speedy? Assuming that order is not important to me and I would be checking for duplicates anyway, is a Python set slower...
I have found an interesting performance regression in a small C++ snippet, when I enable C++11: #include <vector> struct Item { int a; int b; }; int main() {...
This question already has answers here: Find size of object instance in bytes in c# (16 answers) Closed 4 years ago. I need to know how much bytes my...
I can see why the auto type in C++11 improves correctness and maintainability. I’ve read that it can also improve performance (Almost Always Auto by Herb Sutter), but I...
Question Since I am using multiple instances of home_url() in one page template, I was curious if the following method would speed up my page load time. My method...