A couple of interesting items in the news recently….
Recently, AMD announced a new feature which provides a light-weight profiler running in hardware on the processor. This is especially useful for a feature like Java’s HotSpot, which does dynamic re-optimization and re-JITting based on observed profile data during execution. One could use it in so-called "native" [...]
Recently, I was asked to look at a bug in our software where editing a certain record with a certain customers database took far too long — an update which should have taken less than a second took two hours to complete.
CodeGear’s new Ruby IDE, 3rd Rail, includes a version of InterBase for the Mac. Right now that’s the only way to get it, but expect to see it available separately "in the near future."
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