Channel 9 - Discussions by Ion Todirel http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by Ion Todirel http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:01:32 GMT Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:01:32 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - Anyone using SSD for development work only? @Dr Herbie: To give you some numbers, on a single HDD, the compile times are about 30min. With an SSD, the compile times are about 13min, on a RAID-0 SSD array it's about 9min. For this project, every single minute saved in build time is absolutely amazing and totally worth it.

This project is pretty big, and is entirely C and C++.

I imagine for C# the net benefits are going to be less significant.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Anyone-using-SSD-for-development-work-only/2b18c42f456242ee9ddaa1e20027f28e#2b18c42f456242ee9ddaa1e20027f28e Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:25:26 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Anyone-using-SSD-for-development-work-only/2b18c42f456242ee9ddaa1e20027f28e#2b18c42f456242ee9ddaa1e20027f28e Ion Todirel 25 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Anyone using SSD for development work only? Yes, all the machines I care about are SSD based *only*, no mechanical monstrosities are allowed!

Like all self respected developers, I have more than one dev machine at work, the first one has two 120GB SSDs, the first one is for the OS, and whatever apps I use, the second one is for the enlistment (if you know what razzle is... tfs sources, builds, binaries, everything, esentially the whole workspace); the second dev machine has three SSDs, one 180GB reserved for the OS and apps, and two 180GB in RAID-0 for the enlistment (sources, builds everything). The are no HDDs on these machines.

The OS partition does not store anything but the OS and whatever apps I install. My dev boxes are also are very stable, I don't usually install any dogfooding software there. And the number of apps I install is usually within the single digits. Also under no circumstances I allow any sort of Hyper-V servers to kill off my dev machines performance (not while I'm alive). I have separate machines for Hyper-V.

Then I have my terminal services machine, which I use to connect to other machines (I do not use KVMs or other silly things like that), has only one 120GB SSD reserved for the OS, apps and documents.

Currently, my SSD array is running out of space, so I'm considering adding another SSD to the array, that should increase the performance further.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Can-you-do-this-test-on-VS2012/62f418f6fbf04a3bbc1aa1de002ad8c9#62f418f6fbf04a3bbc1aa1de002ad8c9 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:36:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Can-you-do-this-test-on-VS2012/62f418f6fbf04a3bbc1aa1de002ad8c9#62f418f6fbf04a3bbc1aa1de002ad8c9 Ion Todirel 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - The new Mac Pro @PopeDai:Maybe they were referring to 12 threads and 6 cores, see here http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/, dual sockets does not seem feasible 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-new-Mac-Pro/93d6171ab0ea4fb8ac67a1da001c4c26#93d6171ab0ea4fb8ac67a1da001c4c26 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:43:01 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-new-Mac-Pro/93d6171ab0ea4fb8ac67a1da001c4c26#93d6171ab0ea4fb8ac67a1da001c4c26 Ion Todirel 27 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - The new Mac Pro I'm wondering how does it compare in size to my boxes built around Silverstone SG05. It's a desktop and it's not using standard components, least thing I want is to be locked-in in vendor specific hardware. It's also UP, and can expand up to 32GB RAM (4 DIMMs)? 64GB if they support 16GB modules. That's not a lot if you want to use it as a VM server. The storage is also non user upgradeable, and it might use custom interconnects, like MacBook Airs. That's a huge minus for me considering it's a desktop.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-new-Mac-Pro/99ee4d5cd45b46bab15fa1d90171c857#99ee4d5cd45b46bab15fa1d90171c857 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:26:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-new-Mac-Pro/99ee4d5cd45b46bab15fa1d90171c857#99ee4d5cd45b46bab15fa1d90171c857 Ion Todirel 27 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Wonderful talk about concurrent programming in Go if only the syntax was not so atrocious, and then there's the garbage collection bit

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Wonderful-talk-about-concurrent-programming-in-Go/76eb5c32c3734bdc8caea1d5007ad9ff#76eb5c32c3734bdc8caea1d5007ad9ff Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:27:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Wonderful-talk-about-concurrent-programming-in-Go/76eb5c32c3734bdc8caea1d5007ad9ff#76eb5c32c3734bdc8caea1d5007ad9ff Ion Todirel 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - I published an XNA style game toolkit ugh, how does the Pascal optimizer compares to C++ (Utc/LLVM) nowadays?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/I-published-an-XNA-style-game-toolkit/2efb2780fdeb48fb9b5da1cf0178de06#2efb2780fdeb48fb9b5da1cf0178de06 Fri, 31 May 2013 22:52:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/I-published-an-XNA-style-game-toolkit/2efb2780fdeb48fb9b5da1cf0178de06#2efb2780fdeb48fb9b5da1cf0178de06 Ion Todirel 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Bruce Morgan said he'd have a beer with me 6 months ago and you're like what, B40? easy to find and deal with Wink

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void Foo() {
    this.Log("something happened")
}

void Log(string message) {
    LogInternal(string.Format("[timestamp] callerName message", ...));
}

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Scrumware/da871abecd0742589df7a1cc003d6318#da871abecd0742589df7a1cc003d6318 Tue, 28 May 2013 03:43:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Scrumware/da871abecd0742589df7a1cc003d6318#da871abecd0742589df7a1cc003d6318 Ion Todirel 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - I published an XNA style game toolkit @sysrpl:is it targeting only one language, Delphi?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/I-published-an-XNA-style-game-toolkit/4fccf5358bed4792a975a1c801337238#4fccf5358bed4792a975a1c801337238 Fri, 24 May 2013 18:39:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/I-published-an-XNA-style-game-toolkit/4fccf5358bed4792a975a1c801337238#4fccf5358bed4792a975a1c801337238 Ion Todirel 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - 24 hours to Xbox 3 it seems like it has a built in power supply, instead of an external one, that's neat; I wish it had more output options like DP, but 4K resolutions over HDMI should suffice

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, magicalclick wrote

@felix9: I guess you are right. Many XBLA games are C++ quality.

C++ quality? you mean, fast, reliable, efficient, and pretty on top of everything else? Tongue Out yes, C++ games are always like that, and XBLA can be like that, sometimes Wink

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, fanbaby wrote

@Sven Groot: meant POSIX, so they work on linuxes. I think it's mainly bash dependency.

is that really enough to write modern software?

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, felix9 wrote

using twitter https://twitter.com/ahejlsberg

gah, I'd love more posts from Anders about language design, even Carmack is more active on twitter

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, MasterPie wrote

*snip*

I think it's really HTML that holds JavaScript back. Are we still performing string manipulation on document.cookies to read an individual cookie?

That's DOM, it's the DOM and poor browser performance that holds JavaScript back

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, PopeDai wrote

Hmm, I wonder what happened to the other guy who used to be on here... "w3ebo" was it?

he changed his name Wink

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, Sven Groot wrote

For games it doesn't really matter how fast your CPU in your PC is, since 99% of all games coming out now are console ports so are designed to run on 7 year old hardware (Xbox360 and PS3). Hopefully once the PS4 and new Xbox come out there will be some new games that actually utilize modern PC hardware.

Except some select ones, like Crysis

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/This-is-cute-JavaScript/fd786e7a9534459c857ca1ad008acdaa#fd786e7a9534459c857ca1ad008acdaa Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:25:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/This-is-cute-JavaScript/fd786e7a9534459c857ca1ad008acdaa#fd786e7a9534459c857ca1ad008acdaa Ion Todirel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Ion Todirel/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Where is my 128 GHz chip ?

, eddwo wrote

What do you need a 128 GHz chip for?  Are you modelling turbulent flows in fluid dynamics, or do you just want prettier graphics in your games?  

I'm sure we all want to approach holodeck style realism one day, but for most tasks the current systems are probably more than powerful enough.

People adapt a lot more slowly than computers. We still get people asking us for 'minimum system requirements', or what PC should they buy to run our software, when in truth for all but the most demanding applications any computer under 5 years old will do fine.  

I'm still using a Core 2 Duo 6300 from 2006 as my development machine, just with rather a bit more RAM now than what it started with.

 

What we really need is a way to actually make full use the capabilities of the systems we have without all the 'bloating' that has gone on. We have mostly just adapted to faster computers by creating more inefficient software, which leaves us roughly in the same position we were a decade ago in terms of responsiveness.

No it isn't, and it might never be, not in our life times anyway. It depends how much of the world you want to simulate.

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