EDITOR'S NOTE — Larrabee: Gamer or Game Changer?
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TECHNO-NEWS
A Practical Algorithm for Morse-Smale Complex Computation
FEATURES
Virtual Machines, Real Productivity
[author : Sean Campbell and Michael Jeronimo]
You better manage the software development process—or it will manage you!
Virtual Machines, Put to the Developer Test
[author : Mark Cloutier]
To determine whether it's viable to run a VM as a testing/developing environment for software development, Mark ran a battery of performance tests. Here are his results.
Creating and Verifying Digital Signatures
[author : Rafael Palacios and David de la Fuente]
A straightforward method for creating and verifying digital signatures in HTML forms.
Recursive Descent PEG Parsers Using C++ Templates
[author : Christopher Diggins]
YARD, short for "Yet Another Recursive Descent," is a powerful C++ parsing framework.
COLUMNS
Book Review
[author : Mike Riley]
Anyone interested in parallel programming using the .NET Framework needs Joe Duffy's "Concurrent Programming on Windows."
Conversations
[author : Jonathan Erickson]
Shane O'Donnell, Vice President of Engineering for BlueStripe Software, talks with us about virtualization and lifecycle management.
Effective Concurrency
[author : Herb Sutter]
Sharing requires waiting and overhead, and is a natural enemy of scalability.