Elegant C

I really enjoyed reading  The Art of Readable Code .  I always enjoy reading books on style, both English writing as well as source code.  T...

I previously speculated about how Intel's TSX is implemented ; however, I did not have access to any machines supporting TSX until this ...

Critical Thinking: Why is it so hard to teach? - Dr Daniel T. Willingham Critical thinking is intertwined with content knowledge.  We sa...

Signals  are a mechanism for notifying a process of a simple event.  Most programmers and programs can ignore them, as the default behaviors...

This post is built on a discussion I had with  Dr. Thomas Benson  and the recent blog post by Professor Janet Davis,  I've got a POSSE ....

Let me start by saying that tail duplication exists in LLVM, but only as a backend, machine code optimization .  I am going to detail severa...

Vivek Seshadri  gave his PhD defense today covering: how different memory resources have different granularities of access, and therefore n...