在这个网站上已经有很多性能问题了,但是在我看来,几乎所有的问题都是非常具体的,而且相当狭窄。几乎所有人都重复了避免过早优化的建议。

我们假设:

代码已经正常工作了 所选择的算法对于问题的环境已经是最优的 对代码进行了测量,并隔离了有问题的例程 所有优化的尝试也将被衡量,以确保它们不会使事情变得更糟

我在这里寻找的是策略和技巧,在一个关键算法中,当没有其他事情可做,但无论如何都要挤出最后百分之几。

理想情况下,尽量让答案与语言无关,并在适用的情况下指出所建议的策略的任何缺点。

我将添加一个带有我自己最初建议的回复,并期待Stack Overflow社区能想到的任何其他东西。


当前回答

在带有模板的语言(c++ /D)中,您可以尝试通过模板参数传播常量值。你甚至可以用开关来处理小的非常值集合。

Foo(i, j); // i always in 0-4.

就变成了

switch(i)
{
    case 0: Foo<0>(j); break;
    case 1: Foo<1>(j); break;
    case 2: Foo<2>(j); break;
    case 3: Foo<3>(j); break;
    case 4: Foo<4>(j); break;
}

缺点是缓存压力,因此这只会在深度或长期运行的调用树中获得,其中值在持续时间内是恒定的。

其他回答

您可能应该考虑“谷歌视角”,即确定您的应用程序如何在很大程度上实现并行和并发,这也不可避免地意味着在某种程度上考虑将您的应用程序分布在不同的机器和网络上,这样它就可以理想地与您投入的硬件几乎线性扩展。

另一方面,谷歌人员也以投入大量人力和资源来解决他们正在使用的项目、工具和基础设施中的一些问题而闻名,例如,通过拥有一个专门的工程师团队来破解gcc内部,以便为Google典型的用例场景做好准备,从而对gcc进行整个程序优化。

类似地,分析应用程序不再仅仅意味着分析程序代码,还包括它周围的所有系统和基础设施(想想网络、交换机、服务器、RAID阵列),以便从系统的角度识别冗余和优化潜力。

目前最重要的限制因素是有限的内存带宽。多核只会让情况变得更糟,因为带宽是在核之间共享的。此外,用于实现缓存的有限芯片区域也分配给了内核和线程,这进一步恶化了这个问题。最后,保持不同缓存一致性所需的芯片间信号也会随着核数的增加而增加。这也增加了一个惩罚。

这些是您需要管理的影响。有时是通过对代码的微观管理,但有时是通过仔细考虑和重构。

很多注释已经提到了缓存友好的代码。至少有两种不同的风格:

避免内存读取延迟。 降低内存总线压力(带宽)。

第一个问题与如何使数据访问模式更规则有关,从而使硬件预取器更有效地工作。避免动态内存分配,这会将数据对象分散在内存中。使用线性容器代替链表、散列和树。

第二个问题与提高数据重用有关。修改算法以处理适合可用缓存的数据子集,并在数据仍在缓存中时尽可能多地重用这些数据。

更紧密地封装数据并确保在热循环中使用缓存线路中的所有数据,将有助于避免这些其他影响,并允许在缓存中安装更多有用的数据。

不可能有这样的全面陈述,这取决于问题领域。一些可能性:

因为你没有直接指定你的应用程序是100%计算:

搜索阻塞的调用(数据库,网络硬盘,显示更新),并隔离它们和/或将它们放入线程中。

如果你使用的数据库恰好是Microsoft SQL Server:

研究nolock和rowlock指令。(在这个论坛上有一些讨论。)

如果你的应用是纯粹的计算,你可以看看我关于旋转大图像缓存优化的问题。速度的提高使我大吃一惊。

这是一个长期的尝试,但它可能提供了一个想法,特别是如果您的问题是在成像领域:代码中旋转位图

另一个是尽量避免动态内存分配。一次分配多个结构,一次释放它们。

否则,请确定最紧密的循环,并将它们与一些数据结构一起张贴在这里(无论是伪的还是非的)。

我花了一些时间优化在低带宽和长延迟网络(例如卫星、远程、离岸)上运行的客户端/服务器业务系统,并能够通过相当可重复的过程实现一些显著的性能改进。

Measure: Start by understanding the network's underlying capacity and topology. Talking to the relevant networking people in the business, and make use of basic tools such as ping and traceroute to establish (at a minimum) the network latency from each client location, during typical operational periods. Next, take accurate time measurements of specific end user functions that display the problematic symptoms. Record all of these measurements, along with their locations, dates and times. Consider building end-user "network performance testing" functionality into your client application, allowing your power users to participate in the process of improvement; empowering them like this can have a huge psychological impact when you're dealing with users frustrated by a poorly performing system. Analyze: Using any and all logging methods available to establish exactly what data is being transmitted and received during the execution of the affected operations. Ideally, your application can capture data transmitted and received by both the client and the server. If these include timestamps as well, even better. If sufficient logging isn't available (e.g. closed system, or inability to deploy modifications into a production environment), use a network sniffer and make sure you really understand what's going on at the network level. Cache: Look for cases where static or infrequently changed data is being transmitted repetitively and consider an appropriate caching strategy. Typical examples include "pick list" values or other "reference entities", which can be surprisingly large in some business applications. In many cases, users can accept that they must restart or refresh the application to update infrequently updated data, especially if it can shave significant time from the display of commonly used user interface elements. Make sure you understand the real behaviour of the caching elements already deployed - many common caching methods (e.g. HTTP ETag) still require a network round-trip to ensure consistency, and where network latency is expensive, you may be able to avoid it altogether with a different caching approach. Parallelise: Look for sequential transactions that don't logically need to be issued strictly sequentially, and rework the system to issue them in parallel. I dealt with one case where an end-to-end request had an inherent network delay of ~2s, which was not a problem for a single transaction, but when 6 sequential 2s round trips were required before the user regained control of the client application, it became a huge source of frustration. Discovering that these transactions were in fact independent allowed them to be executed in parallel, reducing the end-user delay to very close to the cost of a single round trip. Combine: Where sequential requests must be executed sequentially, look for opportunities to combine them into a single more comprehensive request. Typical examples include creation of new entities, followed by requests to relate those entities to other existing entities. Compress: Look for opportunities to leverage compression of the payload, either by replacing a textual form with a binary one, or using actual compression technology. Many modern (i.e. within a decade) technology stacks support this almost transparently, so make sure it's configured. I have often been surprised by the significant impact of compression where it seemed clear that the problem was fundamentally latency rather than bandwidth, discovering after the fact that it allowed the transaction to fit within a single packet or otherwise avoid packet loss and therefore have an outsize impact on performance. Repeat: Go back to the beginning and re-measure your operations (at the same locations and times) with the improvements in place, record and report your results. As with all optimisation, some problems may have been solved exposing others that now dominate.

In the steps above, I focus on the application related optimisation process, but of course you must ensure the underlying network itself is configured in the most efficient manner to support your application too. Engage the networking specialists in the business and determine if they're able to apply capacity improvements, QoS, network compression, or other techniques to address the problem. Usually, they will not understand your application's needs, so it's important that you're equipped (after the Analyse step) to discuss it with them, and also to make the business case for any costs you're going to be asking them to incur. I've encountered cases where erroneous network configuration caused the applications data to be transmitted over a slow satellite link rather than an overland link, simply because it was using a TCP port that was not "well known" by the networking specialists; obviously rectifying a problem like this can have a dramatic impact on performance, with no software code or configuration changes necessary at all.

谷歌方法是一个选项“缓存它..”只要可能,不要碰磁盘。”