Questions tagged [overhead-minimization]

In C#, we have Console.WriteLine, and when programming a Linear Program, where optimization and overhead is important, I want to know, how necessary is it to use "\n" in the same Console.WriteLine instead of calling this again and again if I want to…

What is the overhead associated with keeping a socket open on the server? Let's say that you've got millions of concurrent connections like facebook, would sockets add too much overhead compared to HTTP requests? I know that sockets will reduce…

I'm trying to decide between having 1 enormous table for all the possible data about a user, a lot of which won't apply to every user, and then having a separate table for the data that a user can have multiple instances of (for example, previous…