Parallelism in .NET – Introduction
Parallel programming is something that every professional developer should understand, but is rarely discussed or taught in detail in a formal manner. Software users are no longer content with applications that lock up the user interface regularly, or take large amounts of time to process data unnecessarily. Modern development requires the use of parallelism. There is no longer any excuses for us as developers.
Learning to write parallel software is challenging. It requires more than reading that one chapter on parallelism in our programming language book of choice…
About Big-O Notation – The good, the bad, and the confusing
Often, prior to using a specific algorithm, it helps to understand information about how the algorithm scales. In order to document this, computer science has borrowed a notation from mathematics called Big-O notation.
Understanding Big-O notation is critical in making good decisions about algorithms or libraries used to implement routines. However, there is often a lot of misunderstanding about what it means, and I frequently see this used as justifications for poor decisions.
