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。

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.

When you get to the point that you're using efficient algorithms its a question of what you need more speed or memory. Use caching to "pay" in memory for more speed or use calculations to reduce the memory footprint. If possible (and more cost effective) throw hardware at the problem - faster CPU, more memory or HD could solve the problem faster then trying to code it. Use parallelization if possible - run part of the code on multiple threads. Use the right tool for the job. some programing languages create more efficient code, using managed code (i.e. Java/.NET) speed up development but native programing languages creates faster running code. Micro optimize. Only were applicable you can use optimized assembly to speed small pieces of code, using SSE/vector optimizations in the right places can greatly increase performance.

以下是我使用的一些快速而粗糙的优化技术。我认为这是“第一关”优化。

了解时间都花在了什么地方。是文件IO吗?是CPU时间吗?是因为网络吗?是数据库吗?如果IO不是瓶颈，优化IO是没有用的。

了解您的环境了解在哪里进行优化通常取决于开发环境。例如，在VB6中，通过引用传递比通过值传递慢，但是在C和c++中，通过引用传递要快得多。在C语言中，如果返回代码表明失败，尝试一些东西并做一些不同的事情是合理的，而在Dot Net中，捕获异常比尝试前检查有效条件要慢得多。

在频繁查询的数据库字段上构建索引。你几乎总是可以用空间来换取速度。

在要优化的循环内部，我避免了必须进行任何查找。找到循环外的偏移量和/或索引，并重用循环内的数据。

最小化IO尝试以一种减少必须读或写的次数的方式进行设计，特别是在网络连接上

减少抽象代码必须通过的抽象层越多，它就越慢。在关键循环内部，减少抽象(例如，揭示避免额外代码的低级方法)

对于带有用户界面的项目，生成一个新线程来执行较慢的任务使应用程序感觉反应更快，尽管不是。

你通常可以用空间来换取速度。如果有计算或其他密集的操作，看看是否可以在进入关键循环之前预先计算一些信息。

向它扔更多的硬件!

你知道吗，一根CAT6电缆能够比缺省的Cat5e UTP电缆更好地屏蔽外部干扰10倍?

对于任何非离线项目，尽管拥有最好的软件和硬件，但如果你的throughoutput很弱，那么这条细线就会挤压数据并给你带来延迟，尽管只有几毫秒……

此外，CAT6电缆的最大吞吐量更高，因为您实际上更有可能收到铜芯电缆，而不是CCA，铜芯包覆铝，这通常出现在所有标准CAT5e电缆中。

如果您面临丢包，丢包，那么提高24/7操作的吞吐量可靠性可以使您所寻找的不同。

对于那些追求家庭/办公室连接可靠性的人来说(并且愿意对今年的快餐店说不，在年底你可以在那里)，以知名品牌的CAT7电缆的形式为自己提供LAN连接的顶峰。