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How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | past | discuss
Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
8 points by ibobev 2 days ago | past | discuss
Why do you say that a COM STA thread must pump messages? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
4 points by ibobev 2 days ago | past | discuss
C++: The Programming Language Cover Raises Unanswered Questions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by birdculture 8 days ago | past | discuss
The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
156 points by paulmooreparks 9 days ago | past | 51 comments
A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
41 points by soheilpro 11 days ago | past | 18 comments
Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 12 days ago | past | discuss
The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern" (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
40 points by paulmooreparks 13 days ago | past | 54 comments
What Is the Thread Reaper? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by vintagedave 23 days ago | past
What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
58 points by supermatou 25 days ago | past | 16 comments
The case of the Create­File­Mapping that always reported ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 27 days ago | past
Why do Windows editions on 32-bit x86 systems artificially limit RAM to 4 GB? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
6 points by supermatou 30 days ago | past
IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
397 points by SeenNotHeard 40 days ago | past | 240 comments
How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
73 points by ingve 41 days ago | past | 71 comments
Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
216 points by ankitg12 44 days ago | past | 97 comments
Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
98 points by aragonite 48 days ago | past | 29 comments
Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
2 points by r4um 52 days ago | past
XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
231 points by ingve 54 days ago | past | 216 comments
Why XOR a register with itself instead of subtracting (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
2 points by LorenDB 54 days ago | past
How did code handle 24-bit formats with video cards with bank-switched memory? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
2 points by ingve 55 days ago | past
Hyrum's Law: The hunt for a faster syscall trap (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by signa11 56 days ago | past
The cover of C++ The Programming Language raises questions not answered by cover (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by ibobev 59 days ago | past | 1 comment
Why is a delay between a thread exiting and Wait­For­Single­Object returning? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 59 days ago | past
Finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 59 days ago | past
Finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by birdculture 61 days ago | past
The cover of "C++: The Programming Language" raises questions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
4 points by krylon 74 days ago | past | 4 comments
How to change a dialog box's message loop to do a Msg­Wait­For­Multiple­Objects (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 76 days ago | past
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway (2006) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
5 points by JoshTriplett 76 days ago | past | 1 comment
Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
168 points by michelangelo 77 days ago | past | 100 comments
Window 95 defenses against installers overwriting files with older versions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
4 points by supermatou 80 days ago | past

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