Performance improvement is a hot topic and companies like to promote their products using higher and higher performance numbers. But great care must be taken, since there are many hypes hidden. Working in the IT industry for many years, I have encountered different kinds of tricks. Also in the research community, there are many results can’t ` be reproduced or hard to be reproduced.

To help better understand the situation in performance, these slides list the key findings. As for the concrete examples, please try to figure out by yourself.

Link to the pdf: Performance: tips and traps.