Rico Mariani·6h agoThe C7 Days: More tools, more problemsHere’s some interesting dates for this article:
Rico Mariani·5d agoThe C6 Days: Tools, Memory, and BugsThis will hopefully be a short series on the old-timey tools around C6.0, C/C++ 7.0 and Visual C++ 1.0. I’m not sure how long it will take…A response icon2A response icon2
Rico Mariani·Jan 6Software Performance Engineering: The Ideas I Keep Coming Back ToOver the years, I’ve written about software performance from a lot of different angles: C++, .NET, systems internals, abstractions, memory…A response icon4A response icon4
Rico Mariani·Dec 7, 2025Common Performance Tuning Advice: Some FlawsI often see the same poor advice about performance tuning, so I want to take a moment to share what I believe is more effective guidance…
Rico Mariani·May 18, 2025How I Approach Performance InvestigationsI’m often asked about doing performance investigations. I’ve done thousands of these over the years, and I tend to give people the same…A response icon1A response icon1
Rico Mariani·Apr 6, 2025Fifty Years of Microsoft Developer Tools1975: BASIC for Altair 8800A response icon5A response icon5
Rico Mariani·Sep 21, 2024Performance Improvements in .NET 9Last year I wrote a summary of Stephen Toub’s Performance Improvements in .NET 8. That was so popular we’ve decided to do it again. Like…A response icon2A response icon2
Rico Mariani·May 22, 2024Sometimes it’s all in the numbers[originally published 03/02/2004 on MSDN, restored so it’s readable and searchable]A response icon1A response icon1
Rico Mariani·Apr 15, 2024General Guidelines for Software Performance Engineering in C++I wrote these as sort of generic guidelines for the C++ Core Guidelines document. I don’t know if they will end up there, but I thought…A response icon4A response icon4
Rico Mariani·Mar 21, 2024C++ for Security and Systems Programming — ObjectionsI was privileged to get early access to Herb’s excellent article on C++ safety. I love its pragmatic approach. Its thesis is, in short…A response icon7A response icon7
