Cliff Click - September 18th, 2008
[Update 9/21/2008: I've got a simple sample program for people to port, plus I've got at least some code for - Clojure, JavaScript/Rhino, JPC & JRuby; missing Scala at least - thanks].
Cliff Click - September 9th, 2008
Chrome did a number of Evil Things to me recently, including killing my FirePass VPN and AgeOfConan - even after a full reboot and never launching Chrome again.... but I get ahead of myself. Here's what happened:
Cliff Click - September 3rd, 2008
I recently got involved in trying to improve performance of a large customer application. Azul's JVMs come with an always-on profiling tool - RTPM - so it was easy to spot where the time was going. The name has been changed to protect the guilty but the name might as well have been "addToSet". A quick check of the JIT'd assembly showed that all time was spent in spinning down a long array (an ArrayList actually), checking for duplicates. In the
Cliff Click - August 7th, 2008
What is a wait-free algorithm? Wikipedia has a nice article on it. There's the obvious definition: all threads complete the job in a finite number of steps - where a "step" is some unit of work granted a thread by having the OS give the thread some time-slice on a real CPU.
Cliff Click - June 15th, 2008
ISMM and PLDI are in Tucson this year, in June (and CGO was in Boston in Feburary - next year I hope they swap!!!). Outside temps are expected to hit more than 105 in the shade. My Dad lives in Tucson, so I went a day early to visit. He's recovering from a diastrous surgical accident, slowly but surely.
Cliff Click - May 27th, 2008
I've been participating in this fascinating discussion with Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure about Software Transactional Memory. I decided to cleanup and echo the conversation here, but the original can be found here.
Cliff Click - May 11th, 2008
I'd like to say I attended dozens of JavaOne presentations, but I barely managed to attend two plus do my own three talks, plus interview 3 job candidates (we're going to make all 3 offers), plus attend a Scala working dinner with Martin Odesky, catch up with some old friends, surf the pavilion, meet with 3 or 4 potential customers, visit the infamous Puzzle Pirate's HQ and have dinner in the oldest continuously operating restaurant in SF.
Cliff Click - April 30th, 2008
JavaOne is fast upon us. It's a big year for Azul; we have 4 talks this year. I'm giving 3 and Gil Tene, our CTO, is giving the other one. I'm mentioning his talk specifically because it "sold out" and JavaOne kindly gave him a 2nd session in a new larger room at an earlier time - which will now be cavernously em
Cliff Click - April 21st, 2008
Today is Earth Day, a celebration of all things Earth-friendly. As a Foolish Earthling, my family & I have decided to "put our money where our mouth is": we've invested both in solar panels and in a CSA.
Cliff Click - April 13th, 2008
