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The memory model is a fascinating topic – it touches on hardware, concurrency, compiler optimizations, and even math.
The memory model defines what state a thread may see when it reads a memory location modified by other threads. For example, [...]
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As a software developer, you certainly have a high-level picture of how web apps work and what kinds of technologies are involved: the browser, HTTP, HTML, web server, request handlers, and so on.
In this article, we will take a [...]
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Most of my readers will understand that cache is a fast but small type of memory that stores recently accessed memory locations. This description is reasonably accurate, but the “boring” details of how processor caches work can help a lot when trying to understand program performance.
In this blog post, I will use code samples to [...]
Around two weeks ago, I found this email in my inbox, with the subject “Complaint about Robozzle”:
Hi Igor
Robozzle is really cute, I like it, but why on earth is it polluted with hundreds of invisible links to porn sites? From a guy like you I don’t expect to do such dirty things. pls remove [...]
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Says who? Google search engine, none other. Yesterday, I searched for my name, and my blog appeared as the fourth link. That surprised me, because I did not intend to make the blog public before I have some content here. As far as I know, nobody links here so far, so I didn’t expect Google to find me. [...]
On the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, I encountered this internet kiosk:
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It was an early morning when I received a call from one of the numerous firms that sell preparation materials for the various IT certification exams. The call woke me up, and perhaps because of my initial confusion, I did not hang up as quickly as I would normally do. Encouraged that he was still [...]
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