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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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Tue, Mar 24 2009 2:34

Buffering vs streaming benchmark: first results

My poor laptop's had a busy weekend. It's run 72 tests, rebooting between each test. Most of these tests have kept both the CPU and disk busy for a lot of the time. I expect to update this blog post with more numbers - and possibly more strategies...
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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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Mon, Feb 2 2009 20:10

Benchmarking: designing an API with unusual goals

In a couple of recent posts I've written about a benchmarking framework and the results it produced for using for vs foreach in loops . I'm pleased with what I've done so far, but I don't think I've gone far enough yet. In particular...
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