Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. First, a bit of operating-system design context. Timer interrupts and their raison d’être. That’s crazy!

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

(Note that “no side effects on normal execution” is always automatically true for violation handlers even when an assertion system such as proposed in [4] allows arbitrary custom violation handlers to be installed, because those are executed only if we discover that we’re in a corrupted state and so are already outside of normal execution. [5]

C++ 82

C++ Programming Code Testing 82

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation. ​​ SQL Server ​​ copy-on-write actions are used to maintain snapshot databases in SQL Server 2005.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40