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Webcast description

HP offers a C/C++ callable library that can help developers improve the performance of certain applications.  These include very lightweight time calls that can help applications bogged down in time-based statistics gathering.  It also includes calls to help applications that consist of cooperating threads that work on shared resources.

Agenda

The content of this Webcast is delivered according to the following agenda:

  • Mercury rationale
  • Mercury overview
  • Mercury private functions
  • Mercury public thread information
  • Mercury caveats
  • How fast is Mercury?
  • Summary

Audience

This Webcast is intended for software developers working with the HP-UX operating system - both in independent software vendor and end user companies - and the channel partner and HP technical representatives who support them. In particular, this course is for developers who have C/C++ programming experience in an HP-UX environment.

Objectives

After the session the audience will be able to

  • Describe the uses and advantages of the Mercury library.
  • Decide if the Mercury library can help them speed up their application.
  • Use the Mercury library with confidence.

Speaker biography

Douglas Larson has been a technical leader in the HP-UX kernel lab and benchmarking organization for over 15 years.  Previously to that he worked in the HP-UX kernel lab on process management, virtual memory management, and other areas for almost 10 years. 

Doug is also considered one of the lab’s leading experts on multiprocessor software performance, locking, and locking contention in particular.  He developed some of the most widely used internal HP-UX performance tools (e.g. spinwatcher, ktracer, kernel profiling). 

Doug works with internal HP organizations as well as field organizations and customers to improve HP-UX and customer performance.  Doug holds two computer performance-related patents.


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