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Wed, Nov 4 2009 7:40

Revisiting randomness

Almost every Stack Overflow question which includes the words "random" and "repeated" has the same basic answer. It's one of the most common "gotchas" in .NET, Java, and no doubt other platforms: creating a new random...
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Fri, Mar 20 2009 12:13

Benchmarking IO: buffering vs streaming

I mentioned in my recent book review that I was concerned about a recommendation to load all of the data from an input file before processing all of it. This seems to me to be a bad idea in an age where Windows prefetch will anticipate what data you need...
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