everything you need to know about optimizing code for the Intel microprocessors, including Pentium, Pentium MMX, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Celeron and Xeon. The main focus is on assembly language programming...
development of a real-time executive for PC applications. The executive developed is based on a pre-emptive round-robin queue, and supports multiple tasks within a global programs address/data space.
in Uninformed Vol1 2005.May by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds. + Ross Moore, Mathematics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.
error codes are values that identify different types of errors in the Windows API. Most functions do not report the error code directly; instead, they simply return a flag specifying if some error occured or not.
"a decade ago was that there was a serious lack of uniformity." ... "I had hoped that the situation in the C++ world would have improved since then, unfortunately it appears that I may be sadly dissapointed."
B-Trees are often mentioned as a good way to store and retrieve data, especially to and from disk. They're efficient to use and easy to program, and they're often mentioned but not-so often discussed. They show up all over the place.