In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2009, Cliff Click discusses the Von Neumann architecture, CISC vs RISC, the rise of multicore, Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP), pipelining, out-of-order dispatch, static vs dynamic ILP, performance impact of cache misses, memory performance, memory vs CPU caching, examples of memory/CPU cache interaction, and tips for improving performance.
Source: InfoQ
Monday, January 18, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Site's terms still enforceable even if users never read them
We're all guilty of skipping over a site's terms and conditions, but don't go crying to the courts if there's something in there that comes back to bite you. Another US court has upheld a site's "browserwrapped" terms of use, saying that they were displayed prominently enough that it's the user's fault for not reading them.
Source: Ars
Source: Ars
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
