Sessions at Microsoft BUILD 2011 about Performance on Friday 16th September

Creating high performance web apps is crucial for every web developer. Learn directly from the Internet Explorer Performance Team about what actually drives performance across the web and how you can make your sites faster. This is the same team that brought you GPU accelerated graphics and compiled JavaScript, and they will share their favorite 50 best practices for web developers.

Windows 8 makes it easy for developers to reduce memory consumption of drivers and apps. This session will introduce the key investments that make this possible, such as pool and heap manager. It also will discuss best practices and tools for optimizing driver and app memory footprint.

Windows 8 offers the opportunity to ship your game on the world’s broadest range of form factors, from super-light tablet devices to high-end gaming rigs with 3D displays. Learn how to max out GPU performance to hit the broadest possible audience.

Is your app as fast as it can be on Windows Phone? There are many details to wringing out the maximum amount of performance on the Windows Phone platform. In this session, the experts will drill in depth on how to create the outstanding app performance that is key to winning the audience on Windows Phone.

The Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) is a powerful tool, used widely by the Windows engineering team within Microsoft, for improving application and system performance. This session will focus on providing you with tips and tricks, in a case study format with videos, for using the WPT along with WPS traces to optimize your own apps.