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Author Archives: Ron
Working with C++0x/C++11: nullptr and nullptr_t
One my pet peeves with C/C++ are null pointers – specifically not having a good way of specifying a special pointer value that means “invalid pointer”. C (and C++) have a preprocessor macro NULL, which in C expands to either … Continue reading
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Working with C++0x/C++11: static_assert and decltype
I have been writing a lot of code the last few months, and I’ve had a chance to play with some of the new C++0x features. It’s really the first time in many years that there’s been a significant improvement … Continue reading
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Otto Berkes – the last Xbox founder – leaves Microsoft
Way back when I was writing my OpenGL Book, I had the good fortune to run across some stupendous folks at Microsoft who were forthright and open and very very helpful to me, answering questions, implementation details, and generally reviewing … Continue reading
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Blog – take 2
So, a few months after updating my website to be more of a blog format ( since that’s what it was anyway), I managed to enter setting in WordPress confuse it utterly and leave it unusable. Much to my surprise, … Continue reading
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Double Your Program Speed with One Easy Change
My friend Stan Melax has written a number of articles on optimization using SSE instructions. He’s also talked about some simple things you can do to make your program run faster. I’d like to reiterate one of these because it’s … Continue reading
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Microsoft Developer Network Article on Threading – Part 2 – Scalable Multithreaded Programming with Tasks
The second of my series of articles on threading is up on Microsoft Systems Developer Network Magazine: Scalable Multithreaded Programming with Tasks This article is about using tasks to break up a lengthy job into a series of smaller ones … Continue reading
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Microsoft Developer Network Article on Threading – Part 1 – Scalable Multithreaded Programming with Thread Pools
The first of a series of articles on threading is up on Microsoft Systems Developer Network Magazine: Scalable Multithreaded Programming with Thread Pools This article is a gentle introduction on how to get better CPU performance with little effort. If your … Continue reading
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Kevin Bachus joins Bebo
Social networking site Bebo (Blog Early, Blog Often.) has hired Kevin Bachus as their “Chief Product Officer”. Bebo is similar (but smaller) than other social networking sites, like Facebook and MySpace. The most interesting thing about Bebo is that it … Continue reading
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