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Screenshot of devblogs.microsoft.com: C++ futures part 1: The mental model

C++ futures part 1: The mental model (devblogs.microsoft.com)

56 points by ibobev 7 days ago | 11 comments

Raymond Chen's Old New Thing post explaining the shared-state mental model behind C++ std::future, std::promise, and std::async with a simplified implementation.

cpp std-future concurrency std-promise

Screenshot of devblogs.microsoft.com: The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation (devblogs.microsoft.com)

465 points by paulmooreparks 4 months ago | 149 comments

Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post recounting how a Windows x86-32 emulator team, using binary translation, patched badly written application code during emulation.

x86 emulation binary-translation windows

Screenshot of devblogs.microsoft.com: When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it

When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it (devblogs.microsoft.com)

366 points by birdculture 1 year ago | 64 comments

Raymond Chen's Old New Thing post explaining why a screenshot of a video pasted into Paint on old Windows appeared to keep playing the video.

windows raymond-chen old-new-thing video-overlay

#old-new-thing on Hacker News

C++ futures part 1: The mental model(devblogs.microsoft.com)

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation(devblogs.microsoft.com)

When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it(devblogs.microsoft.com)

C++ futures part 1: The mental model (devblogs.microsoft.com)

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation (devblogs.microsoft.com)

When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it (devblogs.microsoft.com)