Jun 29, 2018
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2018 mid-year link clearance
Reaching the halfway point.
Showing results for June 2018 - The Old New Thing
Jun 28, 2018
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How can I detect from the preprocessor what a macro’s definition is?
Evil preprocessor tricks.
Jun 27, 2018
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Lock free many-producer/single-consumer patterns: A work queue of distinct events, order not important, follow-up question
We try to minimize spurious wake-ups, but eliminating them is probably not worth the effort.
Jun 26, 2018
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Taking advantage of the asymmetry of offline compression
You can spend a lot of time compressing, but decompression still needs to be fast.
Jun 25, 2018
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The cost/benefit analysis of comparing before an assignment
Factors pull in both directions. The result is a balance.
Jun 22, 2018
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How I learned to type
On an old manual typewriter.
Jun 21, 2018
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What can influence how much stack is consumed when sending a message?
Who wants to know? No really, that's the answer.
Jun 20, 2018
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When I intentionally create a stack overflow with SendMessage, why do I sometimes not get a stack overflow?
It depends on what overflows first.
Jun 19, 2018
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Microspeak: knobs
Configuration settings, basically.
Jun 18, 2018
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Woodworking, the opposite of software development
According to self-reported data from one person who could have just made it up.