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Discoveries This Week 01/09/2008

Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 11:37 AM by RickM
It’s been a very exciting week. I actually had more things to post than time would allow me to write about. I’ll have to save them for next time. Blog: Daniel Spiewak’s What is Hindley-Milner? (and why is it cool?) Hindley-Milner is the algorithm all Read More...
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Avoiding the Dangers of Ambiguously Defined Data-Types

Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 11:10 AM by RickM
When you are handed a string, integer, or any value type, can you know what it really represents? Can you define the range of appropriate behaviors for that data? Can you tell if it's formatted correctly? The problem is, in all of these cases, you can't. Read More...
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Changing Your Garbage Collector Settings on the Fly (.NET Memory Management: Part 5)

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:39 PM by RickM
It has come to my attention via a recent DZone article that .NET 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 jointly included a new feature which lets you manipulate the way your garbage collector acts programmatically. This can be done through changing the value of a new property Read More...
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Why Are Our Programs Still Represented by Flat Files?

Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 3:45 PM by RickM
It's time to leave the secondary, external structure of our programs behind. If you can treat the reflected code from a programming language like an abstract data structure, why can’t you just keep the source itself in a similarly abstracted data structure? Read More...
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Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings for Your Application (.NET Memory Management: Part 4)

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:11 PM by RickM
Tuning the garbage collector to the specific context of the particular application can significantly improve the performance of both non-threaded and multi-threaded applications. In this post I discuss the gcConcurrent and gcServer settings which allow Read More...
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Improving .Net Performance With Ngen: The Native Image Generator

Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:47 AM by RickM
One of the most often cited reasons to not use .NET is that it is initially compiled to an intermediary language (MSIL) and has to be recompiled every time you run it. In many high performance environments this wasted time is simply unacceptable. To combat Read More...
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