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Monday, July 25, 2011

Book Review: Masterminds of Programming

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Several years ago I read a couple of interesting interviews with language designers, so my curiously was piqued by Masterminds of Programmin...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Parallel Programming - Synchronization

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Having submitted a paper this week to a conference, I have been lax on posting any updates.  With the submission behind me, I shall present ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Performance is a Feature

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Performance is a Feature discusses recent performance work for the site, stackoverflow.  I found the post interesting, albeit somewhat remo...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Book Review: Write Great Code Volume 1 (part 4 of 4)

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As I stated in part 3 , I found some erroneous information in chapter 11 about NUMA.  While this book was published in 2004, I cannot excuse...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Book Review: Write Great Code Volume 1 (part 3 of 4)

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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...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Conference Time: HotPar-3

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A little over a week ago, I was at Berkeley for the 3rd annual Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism.  The exciting thing was that researche...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Book Review: Write Great Code Volume 1 (part 2 of 4)

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+/- 1.F x 2^(Exp) That's the modern floating point representation (with a few caveats).  It is stored bitwise as SignExpF.  As this re...