Performance Increase

bzip2smp parallelizes the bzip2 compression process to achieve a near-linear performance increase on SMP machines. This program parallelizes the BZIP2 compression process to achieve a near-linear performance increase on SMP machines. On a two-processor Xeon machine, the speedup is around 180%.... Platforms: *nix

Vista Smoker Pro allows you to change various settings in the Windows Registry. These settings can improve the performance for your computer drastically. Our service manager allows you to use service presets to stop and disable services without needing any knowledge. Vista Smoker Pro includes a... Platforms: Windows

7Smoker Pro allows you to change various settings in the Windows Registry. These settings can improve the performance for your computer drastically. Our service manager has service presets that allows you to fine tune your services without needing any knowledge. 7Smoker Pro includes a One... Platforms: Windows

8Smoker Pro allows you to change various settings in the Windows Registry. These settings can boost the performance for your computer drastically. 8Smoker Pro gives you the ability to easily Disable or Enable CPU Core Parking. In most cases disabling core parking makes Windows 8 seems Snappier.... Platforms: Windows

GtkPerf is an application designed to test GTK+ performance. The point is to create common testing platform to run predefined GTK+ widgets (opening comboboxes, toggling buttons, scrolling text yms.) and this way define the speed of device/platform. I know that bencmarking tools (including... Platforms: *nix

The Android NDK is a companion tool to the Android SDK that lets you build performance-critical portions of your apps in native code. It provides headers and libraries that allow you to build activities, handle user input, use hardware sensors, access application resources, and more, when... Platforms: Linux

The Android NDK is a companion tool to the Android SDK that lets you build performance-critical portions of your apps in native code. It provides headers and libraries that allow you to build activities, handle user input, use hardware sensors, access application resources, and more, when... Platforms: Mac

The Authcache module offers page caching for both anonymous users and logged-in authenticated users. This allows Drupal/PHP to only spend 1-2 milliseconds serving pages, greatly reducing server resources.Please note that enabling authenticated user caching will require modifying how your... Platforms: PHP

If you've used Analog, the webserver log analyzes tool (no relation to yours truly), then you know it rocks. One of the best features of Analog is it's speed, but it's not as fast as it could be - Enter AnalogX QuickDNS! The only slow spot in Analog is it's DNS lookup, which QuickDNS handles!... Platforms: Windows, *nix

Use K7Z if you want to: - Backup a folder to a storage location - Create or extract a password-protected archive - Update an existing archive quickly Ark (2.6.3) is handy but it doesnt seem to: - Create archives with passwords - Extract (some) archives with passwords - Update existing... Platforms: *nix

Fyre project is a tool for producing computational artwork based on histograms of iterated chaotic functions. At the moment, it implements the Peter de Jong map in a fixed-function pipeline with an interactive GTK+ frontend and a command line interface for easy and efficient rendering of... Platforms: *nix

BSPonMPI is a platform independent software library for developing parallel programs. BSPonMPI implements the BSPlib standard (with one small exception) and runs on all machines which have MPI. This last property is the main feature of this library and with this feature it distinguishes itself... Platforms: *nix

BitTyrant is a new, protocol compatible BitTorrent client that is optimized for fast download performance. BitTyrant is...Fast - During evaluation testing on more than 100 real BitTorrent swarms, BitTyrant provided an average 70% download performance increase when compared to the existing Azureus... Platforms: Mac

Simply position Google Earth (version 4+ only) over the location you wish to insert into your images, then drag your images (jpegs only) onto the Geotagger icon. Once the images are tagged the information stays with them so you can import them to iPhoto, upload them to Flickr or Panoramio or any... Platforms: Mac

Gizmo Drive is a virtual device simulator which allows you to create password protected hard disk images with its proprietary GDRIVE format. Gizmo Drive also supports a number of standard image formats including: ISO, VHD, BIN, IMG, NRG, CCD, MDS, and MDF. These images can be mounted to any of... Platforms: Windows

RAMRush Portable is a free memory management and optimization tool. It can efficiently optimize memory usages of your Windows system, free up physical RAM and make your system work better. RAMRush Portable uses an intelligent way to manage the physical memory and lets the RAM work in a better... Platforms: Windows

CleanMem keeps memory use in check on the system without the memory being pushed to the page file. This in turn keeps the system running smoother. Long Version: The people who will notice the biggest performance increase are ones who don't have a lot of memory installed. (More memory is... Platforms: Windows

CleanMem keeps memory use in check on the system without the memory being pushed to the page file. This in turn keeps the system running smoother. Long Version: The people who will notice the biggest performance increase are ones who don't have a lot of memory installed. (More memory is always... Platforms: Windows

RAMRush is a free memory management and optimization tool. It can efficiently optimize memory usages of your Windows system, free up physical RAM and make your system work better. RAMRush uses an intelligent way to manage the physical memory and lets the RAM work in a better performance. It will... Platforms: Windows

Amigabit PowerBooster Free offers a complete solution to speed up, clean up, fix and power up your Windows computer. With over 25 useful PC utilities included, it has never been easier to speed up your slow computer safely and quickly! It also allows users to customize scan times by day and time... Platforms: Windows