With so much happening in the computing world, now seemed like the right time to write “Welcome to the Jungle” – a sequel to my earlier “The Free Lunch Is Over” essay. Here’s the introduction: Welcome to the Jungle In the twilight of Moore’s Law, the transitions to multicore processors, GPU computing, and HaaS [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Welcome to the Jungle
Posted in Concurrency, Hardware, Opinion & Editorial, Software Development on 2011-12-29 | 10 Comments »
GotW #102: Exception-Safe Function Calls (Difficulty: 7/10)
Posted in C++, GotW on 2011-12-02 | 30 Comments »
JG Question 1. In each of the following statements, what can you say about the order of evaluation of the functions f, g, and h and the expressions expr1 and expr2? Assume that expr1 and expr2 do not contain more function calls. Guru Questions 2. In your travels through the dusty corners of your company’s [...]
GotW #101: Solution
Posted in C++, GotW on 2011-12-02 | 14 Comments »
The solution to GotW #101 is now live.
