August 2004 - Posts

Performance Tidbits
24 August 04 02:12 PM | ricom | 25 Comments   

(Some additional remarks on this posting can be found here -- feel free to continue comments on that chain) Here are a few things that I often look for when reviewing code or APIs for performance issues. None of these are absolutes but they’re little Read More...

Filed under: performance, design advice

Performance Quiz #4 -- Of Sets and Sundry -- Solution
19 August 04 03:09 PM | ricom | 5 Comments   

Well thank you all very much for those great responses, I was very impressed! What I did to get my answers was build a little harness with the test cases and then used QueryPerformanceCounter and friends to get the most accurate times I could. Then seperately Read More...

Filed under: performance, quiz

Performance Quiz #4 -- Of Sets and Sundry
18 August 04 09:02 AM | ricom | 20 Comments   

By popular demand, here is the next exciting Performance Quiz -- your chance for fame, glory and recognition or at least a few minutes of amusement anyway :) Below are two methods for taking an array of strings in some random order, removing the duplicates Read More...

Filed under: performance, quiz