Explains why in the concurrent world, locality is a first-order issue that trumps most other performance considerations. Now locality is no longer just about fitting well into cache and RAM, but to avoid scalability busters by keeping tightly coupled ...

Shows different ways of how to write a fast, internally synchronized queue, one that callers can use without any explicit external locking or other synchronization, and compares the performance.

Help users find the documents they're looking for by incorporating a 'thesaurus-like' hierarchy for your site.

Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing.

Describes a number of general purpose debugging techniques for multi-threaded applications.

So far multithreaded file I/O is a under-researched field. Although its simple to measure, there is not much common knowledge about it. The measurements presented here show that multithreading can improve performance of file access directly, as well a...

Article exploring the issues involved in migrating from HTML to XML.

Editorial. One man decides to give up on spam filtering.

A technical overview of the HTML Help standard from a C/C++ developer's perspective. (Keith Bugg / C/C++ Users Journal)

What is AOP? How is it used? The basics are worth repeating, as are the realities that counter persistent misconceptions. Dr. Dobb's.