July 2004 - Posts

Personal emails
13 July 04 12:43 PM | ricom | 3 Comments   

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 to Read More...

Filed under: ramblings

csc default options change (use /o+ now)
12 July 04 02:43 PM | ricom | 0 Comments   

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 opinion Read More...

Filed under: performance, ramblings

When to create exception objects
12 July 04 02:40 PM | ricom | 5 Comments   

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 it later? Read More...

Filed under: performance, design advice

It's a feedback time of year
01 July 04 09:41 AM | ricom | 5 Comments   

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 Read More...

Filed under: ramblings