Diagnose OpenGL Performance Problems
I stumbled upon an interesting OpenGL slow down issue on stackoverflow.com: Curious slowdown in opengl when using instanced rendering. The author created a p...
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Memory leaks even with WeakReferences
A crash report arrived at my desk the other day. The system crashed because it ran out of memory. And the major memory consumer was a WeakHashMap. Very inter...
A Executor Is Not A Thread - or: Correct ThreadPoolExecutor Error Handling
Java 1.5 introduced the Executor framework. In summery: if you have some tasks and you want them to be processed in parallel by a couple of threads, then a E...
Resolving circular dependencies in C++
I stumbled several times already upon situations where I created a circular dependency between two classes. A circular dependency is a code smell.
Linux Process Memory Layout
This article describes how the memory structure of each Linux process does look like.