I got some more personal email via my blog here today and I think it's sort of reaching the point where I should write a little something about my policy on one to one communication. I do apologize but there's just no way that I could possibly hope...

Eric writes about this in his blog It's important that you get in the habit of throwing /o+ for your retail builds as you would for C++ compilation systems. If it had been me I'd have made /o+ the default but then I'm the perf guy so I have a jaded...

I got this question today, thought I'd share my answer here: Q: People are creating and throwing an exception at the same place, usually when a problem occurred. Does it hurt if someone creates an exception in a static construction, then throw...

Performance review time at Microsoft is a good time for self-reflection and to make a point of getting feedback on how things have gone for the past year. I find the feedback can be both surprising and educational so from time to time I try to coax comments...

I was looking at Brad’s blog this morning and I was astounded to find that some people had chosen not to use foreach “Because Rico said so” though they probably didn’t use those exact words. I found that very troublesome for several...

And now the exciting solution to Performance Quiz #3 ! There's actually an enourmous amount of philosophy that can be learned from this little example in terms of good habits but I'd like to anchor this in the numbers so let's begin with those. ...