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How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency?
4 days ago
A customer had a callback that was used to report data being...
Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it
5 days ago
In the documentation for best practices for implementing process and thread-related callback...
What’s the opposite of ClipCursor that lets me exclude the cursor from a region?
6 days ago
A customer wanted to prevent the user from dragging an object into...
The Microsoft Company Party where everybody played name tag swap
7 days ago
I learned from a long-retired Microsoft employee about a Company Party that...
Rotation revisited: Shuffling more than three blocks, and other small notes
8 days ago
A few small notes on rotation before you get sick of it...
The back cover of C++: The Programming Language also raises questions not answered by the front cover
11 days ago
A little while ago, we considered how the cover of the book...
Rotation revisited: Avoiding having to calculate the gcd when doing cycle decomposition
11 days ago
Last time, we looked at how clang’s libcxx implementation of std::rotate uses...
Rotation revisited: Cycle decomposition in clang’s libcxx
12 days ago
We got distracted by the rotation algorithm in gcc’s libstdc++, but let’s...
Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc’s unidirectional rotation algorithm
13 days ago
Last time, we looked at the rotation algorithm used by gcc libstdc++...
Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm
14 days ago
Some time ago, we looked at the problem of swapping two blocks...
The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was “modern”
15 days ago
During the development of Windows 8, we needed a name for “that...
Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 3
18 days ago
Last time, we wrote a coroutine function that cached the result of...