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A tremendous amount of effort has gone into the CLR towards optimizing interface dispatch, because at one time it was slow. Interface dispatches are cached at the call site to avoi…

The standard solution is that the write barrier updates a card table, which generally reserves a bit for every page. When it comes time to mark through old-to-young pointers, the c…

I'm a longtime Emacs user and I dabble with atom and code. The main thing that I get out of GUI editors is that extensions generally just work . I spent a lot of time debugging ema…

UWP C# apps are AOT compiled, the startup hit isn't that bad nowadays.

I got one of these in November and primarily run Ubuntu on it, and I'm really happy with it. The only thing that (really) sucks is that Suspend/Resume is broken, so you get a kerne…

I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 and I haven't tried any of those things. My suspend/resume experience isn't like that blog, though - what happens to me is that I shut the lid, the os "sus…

Maybe it's a good time to share this - I just bought a brand-new Dell XPS 15 and it runs Ubuntu like a dream. The only problem I've had is that suspend/resume (i.e. closing the lid…