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April 2006 - Posts

Friday, April 28, 2006 3:29 PM

Simplify your locking strategy -- simpler is better

Well I didn't mean to but it seems I'm writing a series of articles on locking. Based on my last posting I got several requests for a simple example of a case that could be improved with simpler locking. Here's something of that ilk that's similar to
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:33 PM

Locking -- Isolation -- Unit of Work -- Performance -- Solution

A few days ago I posted a concurrency problem for commentary and I got a very nice set of responses. Now I can't say that there is any answer to this problem that I would say is universally correct but there are some interesting observations that we can/should
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Monday, April 24, 2006 7:54 PM

Locking -- Isolation -- Unit of Work -- Performance

I've had a bit of a locking/threading theme in some of my recent postings so I thought I'd continue that with a little problem. Here's a (simplified) set of operations that is sort of an example of what you might need to do in a free threaded class. Let's
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Friday, April 21, 2006 9:36 AM

Visual C++ 4.0 Trivia -- some old working set results

This isn't exactly a quiz because you couldn't possibly know the answer unless you were there or are pyschic but it's a fun result anyway so I thought I'd share. If you've ever read my mini-bio anywhere you'll know that this is actually my second stint
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:29 PM

The Performance War: Using counts to help navigate flat performance reports

A while ago I wrote about how you often win the performance war 5% at a time . The theme of that article was essentially that if you are finding huge performance wins, especially from just the most basic performance reports, that's usually a sign that
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Monday, April 03, 2006 6:47 PM

First rate posting on mem analysis

I was just going through some memory leak information and I stumbled across a newish posting from Tess: http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2006/03/27/561715.aspx This is a great little article with lots of juicy details very much in the spirit of one
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