The Old New Thing

March 11, 2005 - The Old New Thing

VegFest 2005 this weekend – and – vegetarian is as vegetarian does

March 11, 2005 Mar 11, 2005 03/11/05
Raymond Chen
The weekend of March 12th and 13th, Vegetarians of Washington is hosting VegFest 2005, a festival of vegetarian food. This reminds me of a Time Magazine cover story from July 2002, wherein it was revealed that... In a survey of 11,000 individuals, 37% of those who responded "Yes, I am a vegetarian" also reported that in the previous 24 ...

Performance gains at the cost of other components

March 11, 2005 Mar 11, 2005 03/11/05
Raymond Chen
In the operating systems group, we have to take a holistic view of performance. The goal is to get the entire system running faster, balancing applications against each other for the greater good. Applications, on the other hand, tend to have a selfish view of performance: "I will do everything possible to make myself run faster. The impact ...