January 2005 - Posts

Personal emails
14 January 05 12:43 PM | ricom | 0 Comments   

I just thought I'd post a reminder of my policy on these. http://weblogs.asp.net/ricom/archive/2004/07/13/182016.aspx Thank you for your readership, for your correspondence, and your understanding. Read More...

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Performance Quiz #5: The performance cost of the garbage collector : Solution
07 January 05 11:37 AM | ricom | 14 Comments   

Solution and Discussion On Wednesday I posted this leading question about the cost of using the garbage collector for a certain tree management algorithm and today I offer you my own analysis of this problem. But before I get into the details I'd like Read More...

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Performance Quiz #5: The performance cost of the garbage collector
05 January 05 05:25 PM | ricom | 23 Comments   

It's been a while, so it's time for another exciting Performance Quiz! Here are two implementations of a management algorithm that creates and destroys trees. The first implementation uses the garbage collector to do all of the memory management (even Read More...

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