August 2006 - Posts

Performance Quiz #11: Ten Questions on Value-Based Programming
31 August 06 11:23 AM | ricom | 22 Comments   

Some of you have probably heard one or more of my talks, or read the annotations I made in the Design Guidelines . If you have then you already know that I don't always agree with every suggested guideline. Especially not in every context. It's probably Read More...

Filed under: performance, quiz

Taming the CLR: How to Write Real-Time Managed Code
22 August 06 05:01 PM | ricom | 37 Comments   

I've actually been meaning to write about real time applications for ages so when I was asked to give a talk at MS Gamefest ( http://microsoftgamefest.com ) I jumped at the opportunity to give myself a hard reason to do the homework. Last Tuesday I gave Read More...

Filed under: performance, design advice

My 18th anniversary at MS
15 August 06 07:18 AM | ricom | 3 Comments   

Today marks 18 years for me at Microsoft. In a little twist of fate, I'll be presenting at our Gamefest conference which is kind of fitting because I got my start programming games for the PET 2001 in Microsoft BASIC (before it was Visual) and 6502 assembly Read More...

Filed under: ramblings

Introducing Performance Console
03 August 06 04:03 PM | ricom | 7 Comments   

Ever wonder how I get those nice looking HTML call trees with attributed costs like this one here in my last quiz? Well, it turns out that Josh Williams wrote an excellent program for massaging the perf results that come out of our profiler. The way it Read More...

Filed under: performance, using tools