Raymond Chen, Author at The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

Raymond Chen: Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 25 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He currently appears regularly on MSDN Channel 9’s One Dev Minute channel in the One Dev Question video series.

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C++ coroutines: Cold-start coroutines

C++ coroutines: Cold-start coroutines

April 21st, 2021

On your mark, get set, wait for it!

C++ coroutines: Getting rid of our atomic variant discriminator

C++ coroutines: Getting rid of our atomic variant discriminator

April 20th, 2021

Don't look unless you know it's safe.

C++ coroutines: Allowing the awaiter to be destroyed while suspended

C++ coroutines: Allowing the awaiter to be destroyed while suspended

April 19th, 2021

We were already there.

C++ coroutines: Getting rid of our reference count

C++ coroutines: Getting rid of our reference count

April 16th, 2021

It never goes up. It only comes down.

C++ coroutines: Getting rid of our mutex

C++ coroutines: Getting rid of our mutex

April 15th, 2021

We can capture the progress in a single value.

Pivot points and financial numerology

Pivot points and financial numerology

April 14th, 2021

It will or it won't. That's the beauty of it.

C++ coroutines: Making it impossible to co_await a task twice

C++ coroutines: Making it impossible to co_await a task twice

April 14th, 2021

Always keep moving: Make the co_await consume the task.

C++ coroutines: Tradeoffs of making the promise be the shared state

C++ coroutines: Tradeoffs of making the promise be the shared state

April 13th, 2021

Are you meant to be ephemeral, or are you intended to be durable?

C++ coroutines: The lifetime of objects involved in the coroutine function

C++ coroutines: The lifetime of objects involved in the coroutine function

April 12th, 2021

Follow them as they pop into existence and vanish.

C++ coroutines: Managing the reference count of the coroutine state

C++ coroutines: Managing the reference count of the coroutine state

April 9th, 2021

Are we done yet?