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Using PNG Predictors to Enhance GZIP/PKZIP/FLATE Compression

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:25 PM by RickM
I’ve been doing a lot of work in the PDF space lately. While implementing Binary Cross Reference Streams I was surprised to see that they could be encoded with PNG Predictors. This was surprising to me because binary cross reference streams aren’t images, Read More...
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10 Hours in F#: Exploring Concurrency Through An Ant Colony Simulation

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 3:33 PM by RickM
Synopsis I gave an hour long talk today, here at Atalasoft, on Concurrency in F# . It featured some slides and a small ant colony simulation to demonstrate different kinds of threading. Overall, I liked developing in F# quite a bit; however, puzzling Read More...
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Increasing the Size of your Stack (.NET Memory Management: Part 3)

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:45 PM by RickM
In the previous article I discussed a few of the benefits of stack allocation as well as a couple of C# keywords which help you to leverage those benefits. However, the one megabyte default stack size is too small for stack allocation to be used with Read More...
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Improving Performance Through Stack Allocation (.NET Memory Management: Part 2)

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:06 AM by RickM
Articles in This Series Part 1 – Basic Housekeeping Part 2 – Improving Performance Through Stack Allocation Part 3 – Increasing the Size of your Stack Introduction In C#, when you create managed objects or arrays of value types, they are created on the Read More...
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Counting Processors in .NET: The Pros and Cons of Five Different Methods

Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:54 PM by RickM
There are a great number of different ways to count the number of processors available to the .NET developer. In this post I will go over some of the more common methods and their pros and cons. The Envirionment.ProcessorCount Way Code: Environment .ProcessorCount; 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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IS - The Meta-Meta Language-Language (and parametric compiler)

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 3:48 PM by RickM
Ian Piumarta and some very smart folks over at the Viewpoints Research Institute have been working on a meta programming language named IS which is specifically designed for implementing other languages. The project actually has several names (IS, idst, Read More...
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Clojure Impressions

Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 9:25 AM by RickM
Last night the wmassdevs Group hosted a Clojure presentation by Rich Hickey . Clojure was born of Rich's dissatisfaction with the current state of the concurrent programming and so was built from the ground up around the idea of making this task less Read More...
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The Evolution of Lambda Functions in C#

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:24 AM by RickM
Howard Dierking over at MSDN has a really interesting Blog post entitled " Lambda, Lambda, Lambda! " in which he described the evolution of the lambda function in C#. It seems fairly simple on the surface: 1.0 Introduced Delegates, 2.0 Introduced Anonymous Read More...
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