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Would “Efficient C++” book be irrelevant now due to compiler improvements?
I am planning on purchasing this book to learn more about C++ programming with regards to fast code. However, the book was published in 1999 and I am worried most of it may be irrelevant now due to ...
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(How can I / Am I allowed to) Use Google Maps as a Texture on an OpenGL object?
Note: I asked a very similar question on StackOverflow but did not get much attention, so was directed to http://programmers.stackexchange.com as licensing issues seem to have more interest here...
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Does C# Cache Calculation Results?
I am recently building a basic ray tracer in C# from scratch, as a learning/teaching project. A previous release of the project (let's call it A) does reflections and diffuse shading. The program ...
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Memoization, Caching, Buffering and Page Filing?
I'm writing something on how iterative Fibonacci is substantially better than recursive Fibonacci - a few lines. The main reason of this I find, as do many prominent researchers I believe, is that you ...
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How to implement Cache in web apps?
This is really two questions. Im doing a project for the university for storing baseball players statitics, but from baseball data I have to calculate the score by year for the player who is beign ...
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Writing low latency Java [closed]
Are there any Java-specific techniques (things which wouldnt apply to C++) for writing low latency code, in Java? I often see Java low latency roles and they ask for experience writing low latency ...
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Caching Business Objects in MVC application
I figured this was more of an architectural question, so I chose to post it here rather than Stack Overflow.
So I'm building an MVC web application and have just finished writing the code that wraps ...
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Advice on caching/updating data in memory for silverlight client
Currently in my Silverlight app I'm polling the database for changes to cached objects and am looking for advice on how to update the views that are displaying these lists.
Example:
I have a static ...
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What data structure should I use for this caching strategy?
I am working on a .NET 4.0 application, that performs a rather expensive calculation on two doubles returning a double. This calculation is performed for each one of several thousand items. These ...
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Is using dynamically generated code as cache a good idea?
I have a web search interface that can compare products in a table. This data set changes a few times a week.
I have been storing a "DISTINCT" list (used for parametric selection) in a cache table. ...
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Synchronizing local and remote cache in distributed caching
With a distributed cache, a subset of the cache is kept locally while the rest is held remotely.
In a get operation, if the entry is not available locally, the remote cache will be used and and the ...
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Where is a good place to start to learn about custom caching in .Net
I'm looking to make some performance enhancements to our site, but I'm not sure exactly where to begin. We have some custom object caching, but I think that we can do better.
Our Business
We ...
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Using Memcached: is it good practice to update the cache when updating the database?
This question is about best practices in architecture.
Our Current Architecture
I have a PHP class that accesses MySQL for user info. Let's call it User. User is accessed many times, so we have ...
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When should I invalidate a cache of a user's credentials?
We develop a Windows client application that locally caches a user's credentials for connecting to our server application using the Windows Credential Management API.
Our caching logic works in the ...
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Are there any reasons not to cache an entire site permanently?
I am writing an uber simple blogging platform. The application reads a set of static files that are the articles in the blog, and serves them up.
The only time any content on the site will change is ...
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How can I learn about optimising for the CPU cache (in C)?
Reading these two questions, I see that understanding CPU caching behaviour can be important when dealing with large amounts of data in memory. I would like to understand the way the caching works to ...
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Caching strategies - LRU, MRU, Clock-Pro
I am going to write a bachelor's science work on caching strategies and really, can't find any links to specifications or full descriptions of some of them. Only something like summaries from ...
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Android application Database Framework
When creating mobile (specially Android) application, I usually come to touch with similar pattern of working with data.
Usually I need to fetch some remote data (covered by authorization process) ...
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Would this be a good web application architecture?
My problem
Our MVC based framework does not allow us to cache only part of our output. Ideally we want to cache all static and semi-static parts, and run dynamic parts. In addition, we need to ...
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Is having multiple CDN locations for a product self defeating?
I was double checking the URL for the CDN version of jQuery this morning, and noticed that there are three different locations now.
Is having multiple networks hosting a product bad, or even ...
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How can I best implement 'cache until further notice' with memcache in multiple tiers?
the term "client" used here is not referring to client's browser, but client server
Before cache workflow
1. client make a HTTP request -->
2. server process -->
3. store parsed results into ...
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What's the best way to cache a growing database table for html generation?
I've got a database table which will grow in size by about 5000 rows a hour. For a key that I would be querying by, the query will grow in size by about 1 row every hour. I would like a web page to ...
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Most Efficient Cache Replacement Algorithm
Wikipedia lists 11 cache replacement algorithms. Assuming I know almost nothing about the application I'm going to develop, what should I use as a "default" cache replacement algorithm?
If I recall ...
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Why is facebook cache buggy? [closed]
I just started using facebook and I see that many times when I add something to my profile and visit it later its not there. I bet the reason is that the page is cached and not updated very often.
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