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What Is The Difference Between FileFlags.Random (FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS) And...
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2014/12/14/160652.aspxWhen you want fast and efficient File IO in Windows you can specify a myriad of flags to CreateFile. But which of...
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A Single Line Performance Error
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2014/12/21/160740.aspxWe all make dumb mistakes which are not interesting to share. But sometimes people make interesting mistakes. Below...
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ConcurrentCollections Can Be Prohibitively Expensive
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2015/01/26/161276.aspxSince most of us use multiple threads we get all sorts of race conditions which we can solve with proper locking...
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ProfBugging - How to find leaks with allocation profiling
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2015/03/22/161982.aspxSince ETW know how is still considered an arcane science by most people I have the chance to look at a lot of...
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Which Keywords Has An ETW Provider Enabled?
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2015/03/25/162046.aspxTodays little program has a simple task. It should decode a hex bitmask into its original bits as hex values from...
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Windows Performance Toolkit for Windows 10
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2015/04/21/163342.aspxAll are talking about Windows 10 but what about the developer Tools? Since 4/20/2015 you can also download the beta...
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SpinWait Is Dangerous
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2015/06/18/165219.aspxSome bugs are easy some are hard. If you are dealing with a massive multithreaded distributed application...
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Windows 10 SDK With New Windows Performance Toolkit Available!
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2015/07/31/166002.aspxIt has been a long wait to finally get the new version of the new Windows Performance Toolkit. I had not much time...
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Make WPA Simple - Garbage Collection and JIT Times
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2015/08/16/166270.aspxDid you ever see a nice tool with a fancy UI and thought: Hey that thing is powerful. I will try it! But later you...
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Make WPA Simple - Symbol Loading Is Not Slow
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2015/08/17/166298.aspxWhen you open an etl file you normally want to see which methods were executed most often. To decode the recorded...
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Why Is The First Start Of An Application Slow?
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2015/08/25/166493.aspxAll of us have experienced it but very few of us have gone into the details to really find the reasons for it....
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Can You Execute Code While Waiting For A Lock?
Originally posted on: http://bobgoedkoop.nl/akraus1/archive/2014/10/07/159558.aspxThreading can sometimes lead to impossible bugs where you have a hard time to find out how you got into this state....
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Unexpected Window Message Pumping Part 2
Originally posted on: http://bobgoedkoop.nl/akraus1/archive/2014/10/12/159645.aspxAlthough there was no part one my other post "Can You Execute Code While Waiting For A Lock?" can be considered as part...
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Windows Draws Some Unicode Characters Wrong (Windows 7-8.1)
Originally posted on: http://bobgoedkoop.nl/akraus1/archive/2014/12/01/160433.aspxRecently I got an interesting drawing issue which looks like a Windows bug. Let´s suppose you want to draw a string in...
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What Is The Difference Between FileFlags.Random (FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS) And...
Originally posted on: http://bobgoedkoop.nl/akraus1/archive/2014/12/14/160652.aspxWhen you want fast and efficient File IO in Windows you can specify a myriad of flags to CreateFile. But which of these...
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A Single Line Performance Error
Originally posted on: http://bobgoedkoop.nl/akraus1/archive/2014/12/21/160740.aspxWe all make dumb mistakes which are not interesting to share. But sometimes people make interesting mistakes. Below is...
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ConcurrentCollections Can Be Prohibitively Expensive
Originally posted on: http://bobgoedkoop.nl/akraus1/archive/2015/01/26/161276.aspxSince most of us use multiple threads we get all sorts of race conditions which we can solve with proper locking and...
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ProfBugging - How to find leaks with allocation profiling
Originally posted on: http://bobgoedkoop.nl/akraus1/archive/2015/03/22/161982.aspxSince ETW know how is still considered an arcane science by most people I have the chance to look at a lot of "easy"...
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Which Keywords Has An ETW Provider Enabled?
Originally posted on: http://bobgoedkoop.nl/akraus1/archive/2015/03/25/162046.aspxTodays little program has a simple task. It should decode a hex bitmask into its original bits as hex values from which...
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Windows Performance Toolkit for Windows 10
Originally posted on: http://bobgoedkoop.nl/akraus1/archive/2015/04/21/163342.aspxAll are talking about Windows 10 but what about the developer Tools? Since 4/20/2015 you can also download the beta of...
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