Performance is a critical part of Solaris' lifestyle (along with quality, scalability, etc.) and we have some interesting performance mantras that I thought I would share:
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"Shift focus from the avoidance of small regressions to pursuing significant performance gains." (Various)
"If a competing OS is faster, it's a Solaris bug and it's important." (Phil Harman)
"If you don't measure it, it will regress." (Various)
Corollary: "That which is measured, improves." (Bart Smaalders)
"If you can't or don't measure it, you can't improve it." (Various)
Related: "You can't fix what you can't see." (Bart Smaalders)
"You don't want to tune your car's performance while you are driving the down the road, then why would you want to do it with a computer. Great out of the box performance is critical." (Bart Smaalders)
Related: "They took the spark advance off the steering column a long time ago." (Bart Smaalders)
