The Old New Thing

2018 mid-year link clearance

June 29, 2018 Jun 29, 2018 06/29/18

Raymond Chen

Reaching the halfway point.

How can I detect from the preprocessor what a macro’s definition is?

June 28, 2018 Jun 28, 2018 06/28/18

Raymond Chen

Evil preprocessor tricks.

Lock free many-producer/single-consumer patterns: A work queue of distinct events, order not important, follow-up question

June 27, 2018 Jun 27, 2018 06/27/18

Raymond Chen

We try to minimize spurious wake-ups, but eliminating them is probably not worth the effort.

Taking advantage of the asymmetry of offline compression

June 26, 2018 Jun 26, 2018 06/26/18

Raymond Chen

You can spend a lot of time compressing, but decompression still needs to be fast.

The cost/benefit analysis of comparing before an assignment

June 25, 2018 Jun 25, 2018 06/25/18

Raymond Chen

Factors pull in both directions. The result is a balance.

How I learned to type

June 22, 2018 Jun 22, 2018 06/22/18

Raymond Chen

On an old manual typewriter.

What can influence how much stack is consumed when sending a message?

June 21, 2018 Jun 21, 2018 06/21/18

Raymond Chen

Who wants to know? No really, that's the answer.

When I intentionally create a stack overflow with SendMessage, why do I sometimes not get a stack overflow?

June 20, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 06/20/18

Raymond Chen

It depends on what overflows first.

Microspeak: knobs

June 19, 2018 Jun 19, 2018 06/19/18

Raymond Chen

Configuration settings, basically.

Woodworking, the opposite of software development

June 18, 2018 Jun 18, 2018 06/18/18

Raymond Chen

According to self-reported data from one person who could have just made it up.