After my last blog post, due to some of the responses, I decided to spend some time with Smalltalk.  As a DotNET developer by trade, I wanted to see what kinds of options were available for use on the CLR.  Unfortunately, out of the five different DotNET Smalltalk flavors that have been created, not a single one is still under ...

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 a large dataset. Alternatively, in some threading situations one megabyte per thread/fiber can ...