I had a brief e-mail exchange with one of the devs on the optimizer team about a checkin he put up for review. He modified the compiler so that it only aligns the stack for functions that call other functions - that's the typical definition in compiler...

I'll be hanging out with the cool kids at the Northwest C++ Users Group tomorrow night. If you're in the area, and want to heckle me, swing by. We'll be in building 40 at 6:30 PM. My talk starts at 7:00 PM. I'm talking about the actual runtime cost of...

Explains in hand-wavy, high level terms what hot-patchability is, why you might want it, and how it works....

A Summary of the x64 calling conventions with links to the official document - a handy reference for folks just starting to port a compiler, or needing to author some assembly code....

A brief discussion of how to author simple x64 unwind data for assembly files...