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This is the seventh part of the Concurrency series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Mutex performance in .NET Last time we examined an interesting behavior of Mutex when it is abandoned. Today we will look into Semaphore. Typical interview question is: what is … Continue reading Concurrency Part 7 — Semaphores trickery
Imagine that you are writing a top-down dynamic algorithm. You already represented your dependencies as recursive functions and now you need to figure out how to decrease the memory usage and calculate things in correct order. On the other hand, you can just apply brute force approach and cache results. How to write caching to … Continue reading Caching result of any function in C++
This is the thirteenth part of the Custom memory allocation series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 — Allocating object on a stack Recently Jean-Bernard Pellerin showed nice tricks for binary serialization in place. There is also a description of .NET Framework hack using unions … Continue reading Custom memory allocation in C# Part 13 — In-place serialization
This is the tenth part of the .NET Inside Out series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Virtual and non-virtual calls in C# If you are interested in the topic see the talk page Today we are going to see a concept of type … Continue reading .NET Inside Out Part 10 — Using type markers for low level optimizations
One of the most irritating thing in Windows is no way to prevent an application from stealing focus. There are multiple questions on Stack Overflow regarding the issue, there are rumors that Microsoft wanted to do something but they cannot detect it reliably. There are workarounds like ForegroundLockTimeout but ultimately there is no good solution. … Continue reading Decreasing pain of stolen focus