Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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Optimizing synchronization

We need to get the optimizer more involved with thread creation and synchronization. Today the optimizer group is very focused on OpenMP programs, and less focussed on trying to optimize pthreads-style programs. (Of course,we have lots of OpenMP customers too, and it’s their judgment call.)

I was reading some slides from a talk about Transactional [...]

February 13th, 2006 | Category: Developer Tools | Leave a comment

I don’t get all the keysigning hubub.

I’ve been reading about keysigning parties today, and trying to study about OpenPGP (which uses a so-called “web of trust” and S/MIME (which uses “certificate authorities“). S/MIME is simpler to use and it’s top-down. You get an official company to vouch that your cryptographic key (your certificate actually) really belongs to someone with your name [...]

February 5th, 2006 | Category: Modern Life | Leave a comment