Speeding up Haskell with C – a very short introduction
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You are working on your project in Haskell. You notice the performance is not as great as it could be. Here’s what you can do, apart from writing more... more »
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Delta3D Open Source Game Engine 2.1.0 Released!
A well-supported open source project, Delta3D is a full-function game engine appropriate for a wide variety of modeling & simulation applications... more »
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"C++ Programming Language" Still Rocks
Why is the book about C++ written more than 20 years ago still useful for .NET and Java developers?
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Computer Vision C++ vs Java review
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In 2007 I created an open source computer vision project, ShapeLogic, built in Java to work with ImageJ. This setup has been very easy to work with... more »
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Blocks/Closures For C!
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This is very exciting: it’s the kind of new abstraction the C family has needed for years. As you know if you’ve worked in Ruby or Python or Smalltalk... more »
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Your Code Sunk My Battleship!
Clarity Battleship is a multi-player game in which players code the "artificial intelligence" needed to command their fleet to victory on the high... more »
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Export C++ classes from a DLL
Dynamic-link libraries (DLL) are the integrated part of the Windows platform from its very beginning. DLL allows encapsulation of a piece of... more »
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32-bit Pointers in a 64-bit World
64 bit is wonderful - no longer we are limited to a just 2GB (per Win32 process) - you can now address a full 8TB of memory (per Win64 process)...... more »
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Numerical Recipes in C
Thanks to special permission from Cambridge University Press, we are able to bring you the complete Numerical Recipes in C book On-Line
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Beust Coding Challenge Wrap-up
My first take away from this little exercise is that conciseness only goes so far. I have seen people post a one-liner solution on their blog in... more »
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A Deeply Skeptical Look at C++0x
Today I saw a link to an article entitled C++ Gets an Overhaul on Hacker News detailing C++0x, the proposed set of standards for the new generation of... more »
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Cilk Wins Most Influential Programming Language Design and Implementation Award
The PLDI paper "Implementation of the Cilk-5 Multithreaded Language" introduced an efficient form of thread-local deques to control scheduling of... more »
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C++ Gets an Overhaul
In this overview of the changes proposed for the new standard, you'll get an idea of the kinds of improvements you can expect this time around.
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Easier C++: An Introduction to Concepts
C++0x concepts bring the full power of the Generic Programming paradigm to C++, making templates more expressive, easier to write, and easier to use.... more »
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Boost Version 1.36.0 Released
Boost 1.36 has been released with 4 new libraries (including very useful exception templates) and a host of updates. In particular, boost.asio (the... more »
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3 Things Multicore Programmers Need
Summary of conversations with ~50 software organizations around the multicore programming challenges, and key criteria for a possible solution.
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Multi-Threading in C++
A Tutorial that describes how to make your C++ program evenly distribute it's load to all available cores/processors.
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Increase Your Depth as a Programmer by Spelunking
Spelunking through obscure parts of a language can yield some surprises, and make you a better programmer.
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Adding a lock() statement to C++
Describes a siimple way to add a C#-style lock statement to C++ to simplify synchronization.
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Multicore Programmers: What the $#@! is Parallelism?
An intro to Amdahl's Law, and concepts around Work and Span, as they relate to multicore programming. Blog post presents a model for analyzing... more »
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The Folly Of Do-It-Yourself Multithreading
Many engineering organizations struggle with NIH ("not invented here") attitudes within their company, since most engineers would rather build than... more »
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Concurrency + Erlang
A talk and many resources on concurrency and Erlang
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Behind the Scenes at Facebook: Scaling Up FBChat Using Erlang
The most resource-intensive operation performed in a chat system is not sending messages. It is rather keeping each online user aware of the... more »
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Visual C++ Thread Debugging
The great difficulty in thread debugging is the lack of predictability and certainty in application behaviour. For a single-threaded application that... more »
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