I am too old

You may feel young when you love so much of the music around this year (Gorillaz, Oasis, Green Day, Coldplay, Kasabian, Garbage) that you really can’t choose which one should be your personal favorite of the 2005.

Then you discover that at the top of the BBC top ten charts there is a phone ring.

I’m too old to understand :(

May 31, 2005 | Filed Under Rants | Comments Off 

Hanoi towers as a pure recursion benchmark, part 1 - Introduction

The final purpose of this will be analyzing the performance differences between native C++ and managed C++, with a focus on them coexisting in the same process.
Too often, whenever one mentions .NET technologies, he gets various comments on performance hits for his applications. Is this truth or myth ?

The first benchmark we’re going to use is a simple one. Simple doesn’t mean it isn’t effective as a measurement solution; however its result might not reflect real world situations. The example is a classic problem in recursion : Hanoi towers. You can get more information, as well as a running demo of the problem, here.

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May 29, 2005 | Filed Under .NET, C++, Programming, x86/ia32 specific | Comments Off 

C++ mixed mode applications

While calling native code from CLR code is reported everywhere as one of the key benefits of .NET technology, the other way around (that is, calling CLR code from native) is often considered an useless addition, if one knows at all of its existence.
Actually this is, instead, the reason I find .NET so exciting to work with. The ways this capability can be used are actually only limited by one’s imagination.

So let’s start our experiment.

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May 28, 2005 | Filed Under .NET, C++, Programming, Win32 | Comments Off 

Welcome!

So the adventure begins. After almost two years owning this domain, the time has come to use it for something more than just email.

First meaningful post scheduled for tomorrow ;)

May 27, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off