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Countless defeats + 1 win ... The math is the key.-Stephen66515 (October 28, 2010, 01:09 PM)
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The fact the RIAA has won 1 case doesnt say much
<snip />-Stephen66515 (October 28, 2010, 09:07 AM)
... but I didn't because it was very early in the morning and interfered with my swim team practice....-superboyac (October 26, 2010, 03:56 PM)
Who knows, one day your ability to swim might proof more useful than your (now non)ability to program Turbo Pascal!-phitsc (October 27, 2010, 05:21 AM)
Pascal has no float data type. No help there!-MilesAhead (October 27, 2010, 11:58 AM)
Hope they dont "sell out" or get "bought out"-SKA (October 27, 2010, 12:57 AM)
I'm still doing it, but I just can't get it done today.| Application Name | Backup Verification Utility |
| Version | 0 |
| Short Description | Utility that checks a series of files for backup specific verification rules. |
| Supported OSes | Windows |
| Web Page | - |
| Download Link | - |
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| Inspiration Credited To: | Justice from his Cancelled NANY 2011 Entry. |
| Author | wraith808 |
That would be least confusingHow did you guess I was using AHK
-justice (October 26, 2010, 03:56 AM)
wraith808, garbage collection is done entirely at the CLR's mercy; depending on win32 memory process and which heap generation your object is in, when it's collected can vary a lot. This is just one of the reasons why you shouldn't depend on finalizers being called. Furthermore, just because a bunch of your CLR objects are being collected doesn't mean the used win32 memory is released - this makes sense because allocating system memory is "slow", so (if you're thinking only of the running .NET process and not the entire system) it makes a lot of sense to hang on to the win32 memory even if it's no longer strictly needed.
There's several different GC profiles your app can use, with different heuristics for when and how the GC works. There's also manual GC interaction you can do, but you should be really careful about this since it can seriously pessimize your app performance.-f0dder (October 25, 2010, 04:14 PM)
Update: Though since I had to post to say that, let me just say when I say appear to use more, I mean because memory is still allocated to the application that is not actually in use; when you dispose of objects, the memory is not freed immediately. This can't rightly be said to be used by the application since the developer is not using the objects... the memory is still just in that application's space.The application might not be 'using' the memory, but the thing that counts wrt. memory footprint is the Win32 Private Bytes size, not the amount of CLR memory. Keep in mind that even after GC has run, the win32 memory used by the CLR isn't necessarily reduced.-wraith808 (October 25, 2010, 11:29 AM)-f0dder (October 25, 2010, 12:06 PM)
Could a moderator perhaps split out the whole stuff-about-.NET to a separate thread so it doesn't distract from LangOvers product announcement? - sorry for continuing the off-topicness-f0dder (October 25, 2010, 10:18 AM)
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There's a few relevant issues with it, though:</snip>
- .NET appsare more memory-hungry than native equivalents, and there's CPU-speed overhead as well - although it's not as easy as saying "always slower", but that's a topic on it's own.
-f0dder (October 24, 2010, 04:05 PM)
Already pre-ordered. Thanks for the heads up on IRC lanux!-Josh (October 20, 2010, 08:52 AM)
Anyways that will be the last time i'm visiting an apple thread on donationcoder, if you could please label them with apple then i can safely ignore the trolls.-justice (October 23, 2010, 09:00 AM)
In any case, my point was simply that, without any precise aim, discussing form vs function becomes quickly a circular debate. "Software" is a large field and there is a huge variety of software consumer with incredibly various needs. What form and function for whom ? When ? Sure a shiny tool that doesn't work might be scrap metal, but that's taking the opposite end of the spectrum as a justification. It's a given : nobody wants something that's either "useless" (a least for them) or "incomprehensible" (for them).-Armando (October 23, 2010, 01:14 AM)
Theory vs. Practice. In theory anything is possible, which is why academics tend to end up in circular discussions. Practice on the other hand, tends to rather clearly define the limitations that were being missed in conversation.
It's only circular if you have no context. Tools are devices that perform work that we want done. Sure, pretty gets it off the shelf and out of the stores into the garage. But if it don't work ... It's not going to stay in the garage...It's going out to the curb on its way to the dump.-Stoic Joker (October 23, 2010, 09:32 AM)
I forget about stars in address bars because nobody else uses it.-MilesAhead (October 21, 2010, 06:54 PM)
Firefox uses a star in the address bar, too.
As someone who has never used Ctrl-D before, that shortcut doesn't even make sense to me. There's no D in "bookmark."
Of course, there's no J in "Downloads" either but I still remember that Ctrl-J brings up the Downloads list. So I guess I just contradicted myself. <shrugs>-Deozaan (October 21, 2010, 08:49 PM)
If you don't like it don't use it.-justice (October 21, 2010, 07:53 AM)
Just couldn't resist that~!
-Renegade (October 14, 2010, 07:21 AM)
) the reason that you ended up where you are now? 
Oops - almost forgot: one of the most exasperating missing features in Chrome........... NO PRINT PREVIEW!! What are they thinking with that??-J-Mac (October 13, 2010, 09:35 PM)
Have you tried either of the companion products from JGsoft - RegEx Buddy and RegEx Magic?
Both are directly available in EditPad Pro search pane and the Magic version requires no RegEx syntax knowledge! All the power of RegEx without the pain.-Carol Haynes (October 14, 2010, 03:28 AM)
