Here is something I read in graduate school and still thinks about from time to time: Edsger W. Dijkstra's Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research: Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting...

I was looking at assembly code trying to improve an important performance scenario when I found a strange call to _chkstk 011E100E push 10h 011E1010 pop eax 011E1011 call _chkstk (011E1810h) 011E1016 mov ecx,esp My understanding is that...