Been busy with my personal version 2, Evelyn or Evie for short, who is now 2 and a half weeks old.
Say hi Evie ^_^
Busy with v2
January 26th, 2010Comparing “Go” to “Brand X”
December 25th, 2009The old-timers might figure out what Brand X really is before the end. For the rest of us, the reveal at the end is just as shocking as the author intended. All and all, it confirms what I suspected: Go nice enough, but it is hardly original. Sure it looks like a great language to write in compared to C, but then again, what doesn’t?
Comparison of Google’s new language “Go” to mysterious “Brand X”, and the shocking reveal of Brand X’s true identity.
As found through http://www.foldl.org/, a digest blog on various programming language topics.
Native Client at UWCS lecture
November 26th, 2009Available for streaming and download, Google Native Client presented at UW’s computer science lecture series. Covers the restrictions on x86 code, new alignment rules, and performance on various benchmarks. 5% overhead, that’s nothing compared to many other sandboxing techniques.
Native client is 50KB download? Wild. It really is just a gatekeeper, runtime library separate.
Of course, I would love to get away from x86. LLVM, or ARM, or even Amd64. x86 makes me a sad panda.
On the value of consistent API design
November 23rd, 2009Raymond Chen writes in “We’re using a smart pointer, so we can’t possibly be the source of the leak“. The most immediate cause is a subtle misuse of CComPtr, using operator= which performs an AddRef on a return value that has already been AddRef’d, leading to one AddRef too many.
The less immediate failure was a poorly designed API.
Well, not poorly designed. Unfortunately designed.
PDC 2009 top picks
November 18th, 2009Personal picks for PDC 2009 thus far. Haven’t watched them yet, so no reviews.
- Dynamic Binding in C# 4.0 — last I saw this was pre Beta, so need to catch up on what was improved in the final design.
- Concurrency Fuzzing & Data Races — data races = debugging pain.
- C++ Forever: Interactive Applications in the Age of Manycore – I’m a bit skeptical about the title though — forever? really? I guess we’ll wait an see.
- Microsoft .NET Micro Framework and Intelligent Devices – mostly interested in seeing where the MF is at, and what their public future directions are.
- Microsoft Perspectives on the Future of Programming – some big names here, Erik Meijer, Herb Sutter I’m most aware of; Don Box interesting, I haven’t seen what he’s up to lately.
- Future of Garbage Collection – Patrick Dussud.
- Rx: Reactive Extensions for .NET – Erik Meijer’s latest work
- Axum: A .NET Language for Safe Scalable Concurrency — mostly to remain abreast of different async patterns and their consequences.
- F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming – again, to remain informed of async developments.
Small complaint on behalf of those who were physically in attendance: I imagine it’s really annoying to find related topics always be in the same slot. Concurrency Fuzzing and C++ manycore; Axum and F# Parallel/Async; I would think it would be annoying to have to choose between those pairs.
Of course, I always watch online after-the-fact when the videos are up, so no negative consequence for me.
#aaron