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Getting accurate per thread timing on Windows
17 July 07 05:04 PM | john | 2 Comments   
If you need to accurately time operations in Windows, you're usually directed to the QueryPerformanceCounter API. This API is also neatly wrapped in .NET under the Stopwatch class. Indeed, this is this is simplest way to get reasonably accurate timings Read More...
Why Safe Code == Slow Code
11 January 07 03:51 PM | john | 0 Comments   
One of the many turning points that we are facing in the software industry today is that of code security. Once upon a time you wrote your code so that given some set of inputs you got a corresponding set of outputs. Then along came the virus, trojan Read More...
Changing MVID's
12 August 05 03:22 PM | john | 0 Comments   
Ahhhhh. There's nothing quite like pasting a big chunk of code into your blog. It makes the prose writing part so much easier! My last entry was about counting bits. Today I put that in the context of the original problem. Todays entry comes from an internal Read More...