About Tuning  Methodologies

Deciding what your tuning goals is the starting point for any tuning exercise. A clear goal enables you to choose a tuning strategy that can help you achieve it with the least effort.

Once you determined there goal(s), follow the tuning methodologies provided here to achieve the best speedup in the shortest amount of time.

If you are aware of the latest trends in processor technologies and prepare your code for potential future processor innovations, you can reduce the time you need for making additional architecture changes to your software in order to take advantage of new processor technologies. For instance, use features such as Hyper-Threading Technology in processors that support multi-tasking and multi-threaded applications to get the best performance of your software.

last updated: March 1, 2007