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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently. tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently. issues with C++.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Character POS ASCII Value Formula Value A 1 65 67 C 2 67 69 Checksum 136 Comparing ​​ the checksum values indicates ​​ that the values do not match and ​​ damage ​​ has occurred to the data.

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