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In some cases, adding more [[main memory|memory]] can help to make a program run faster. For example, a filtering program will commonly read each line and filter and output that line immediately. This only uses enough memory for one line, but performance is typically poor, due to the latency of each disk read. Caching the result is similarly effective, though also requiring larger memory use.
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In particular, for [[just-in-time compiler]]s the performance of the [[Run time environment|run time]] compile component, executing together with its target code, is the key to improving overall execution speed.
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Somtimes, "optimizations" may hurt performance. Parallelism and concurrency causes a significant overhead performance cost, especially energy usage. Keep in mind that C code rarely uses explicit multiprocessing, yet it typically runs faster than any other programming language. Disk caching, paging, and swapping often cause significant increases to energy usage and hardware wear and tear. Running processes in the background to improve startup time slows down all other processes.
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