February 2005 - Posts

Qualitative Code Differences in Managed Code
22 February 05 02:05 PM | ricom | 23 Comments   

My colleague Vance Morrison wrote an internal paper on code quality issues in our current system. I thought there were some excellent items discussed in his paper so with his kind permission I've edited/summarized it for a general audience. Thank you Read More...

Filed under: performance

Collections too slow? When to write your own basic types
16 February 05 12:50 AM | ricom | 7 Comments   

As usual there isn’t really one set of rules that will always guide you to making the right decisions but I’d like to offer some approximately correct guidance to help you to decide when you should decline the standard menu and instead cook up your own Read More...

Filed under: performance, design advice