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Fifty Years of Microsoft Developer Tools

1975: BASIC for Altair 8800

Apr 6

Apr 6

Performance Improvements in .NET 9

Last 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…

Sep 21, 2024

Sep 21, 2024

Sometimes it’s all in the numbers

[originally published 03/02/2004 on MSDN, restored so it’s readable and searchable]

May 22, 2024

Sometimes it’s all in the numbers

May 22, 2024

General 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…

Apr 15, 2024

Apr 15, 2024

C++ for Security and Systems Programming — Objections

I was privileged to get early access to Herb’s excellent article on C++ safety. I love its pragmatic approach. Its thesis is, in short…

Mar 21, 2024

Mar 21, 2024

100% Unit Testing — Now It’s Ante

Introduction

Mar 18, 2024

Mar 18, 2024

Array Bounds Checking in 2024

I was chatting with a friend of mine about the costs we expect for this kind of thing and I recalled an experiment I did in the .NET JIT a…

Jan 2, 2024

Array Bounds Checking in 2024

Jan 2, 2024

Ambient Authority: The Root of all Evil

Not so many years ago I had the privilege of working on the Midori Research Operating System and it was one of the most educational two…

Dec 28, 2023

Dec 28, 2023

When Bad C++ Happens to Good People

A C++ Hazard Exposé

Nov 7, 2023

Nov 7, 2023

That’s Not Functional — It’s Just Bad

I have been ragging on “Modern C++” for months now and I have a new one.

Oct 23, 2023

Oct 23, 2023

Rico Mariani

Rico Mariani

I’m an Architect at Microsoft; I specialize in software performance engineering and programming tools.

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