Making Programs Faster

Turnaround

Sometimes the key performance criterion is responsiveness
Time-sharing systems are a lot less efficient than batch systems
- But batch systems are dead
- Because everyone hates them
I had a client with a CGI application
- Their client (Ford) would hit the CGI application in large bursts
- Maybe 2000 times over five minutes
- Then not at all for a long time
- How to get the application to reply to Ford in a reasonable amount of time?
The code is about 430 lines, so we'll only see excerpts