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The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 5 (Jan 29, 2011)

January 29, 2011 Jan 29, 2011 01/29/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
This week comes with an article to help you set your application for parallelization; C++ MVP Dan Rollins researches on various ways to implement properties in C++; Issam Iqbal, C++ MVP, gives another twist to the TO CLI or NOT TO CLI debate when creating unit tests for our unmanaged code (voting for “NOT TO CLI”). There are also a...

How we test the compiler performance

July 7, 2010 Jul 7, 2010 07/7/10
Visual CPP Team
The C++ back-end team is very conscious of the performance of our product.  Today I will present to you an overview of how we define “performance of our product” and the way we measure it.  Along the way I hope to introduce you to some new ideas that you can use to test your product’s performance as well. You can ...

How we test the compiler backend

June 1, 2010 Jun 1, 2010 06/1/10
Visual CPP Team
My name is Alex Thaman and I am a Senior Test Lead on the Visual C++ compiler team at Microsoft.  The focus of this blog is testing of the compiler backend where I’ve spent a good portion of my time here.  For those not aware, this is the part of the compiler that takes an intermediate representation as an input, does ...