Elegant C

Back at SIGCSE again, this one the 50th to be held.  Much of my time is spent dashing about and renewing friendships.  That said, I made it ...

Today I attended Alexei Colin's thesis defense titled, Systems Support for Intermittent Computing. For small, embedded devices, batter...

I have just finished attending SIGCSE 2018 in Baltimore.  In contrast to my earlier conference attendance, this time I have had higher invol...

Today, I went to Michael Sullivan 's thesis defense, who passed.  The work was at a delightful intersection of my interests. We want b...

It is once again, conference time.  For North Americans, this might seem rather early as I am writing from Prague, Czech Republic (or at lea...

Similar to every other talk on Computer Architecture, first we need to revisit history.  Only by knowing from where we came, do we envision ...

In Portland for the next 5 days attending the Federated Computing Research Conference, which is a vast co-location of the top ACM conference...

ARM, that exciting architecture, is ever more available for home development.  At first, I was intrigued by the low price points of a Raspbe...

Here is a small work that showed the power (or perhaps horror) of modern assembly languages. I've told people before that an instructio...

In a prior post, Measuring Performance , I discussed some techniques for how a developer might measure the performance of his or her applica...

Since I am already excited about some of the features of the new Haswell family, it was great to see an even deeper look into microarchitect...

As a computer architect, I like to think that the hardware abstraction is generally opaque.  If a programmer really needs performance or cer...

It was some years ago that I sat in the audience and heard AMD present a sketch for how transactional memory (TM) would be implemented in th...

Let's start with a mythical program. It has some classes (structs, objects, etc) that are instantiated. Each field has a meaning given...

Starting with a primer of Understanding processing time , let's delve into some methods for how we might measure the performance of soft...

With Parts 1 and Parts 2 behind us, the text can race forward through character sets, present memory usage / layout (like my Pointers on P...

People often express uncertainty about the working of pointers, structures, etc.  They may not be my readers, but hearing their plight moves...