Monthly Archives: November 2009

Native Client at UWCS lecture

Posted on November 26, 2009 by aaron

Available 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 … Continue reading →

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On the value of consistent API design

Posted on November 23, 2009 by aaron

Raymond 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 … Continue reading →

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PDC 2009 top picks

Posted on November 18, 2009 by aaron

Personal 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. … Continue reading →

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Loop variable closure semantics

Posted on November 16, 2009 by aaron

Just a quick post, haven’t shared anything in a while, but found this discussion on loop variables and closures interesting — well, inflammatory, actually.

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