Taking a short break before diving into the cross-platform parallel development approach, I wanted to post something here about Linux. I read so many news stories about how hard Linux is to use, how easy Windows is, and why take the road less-traveled…it made me sit back and take stock of why I continue to [...]

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In part 1 I outlined in broad strokes some of the general defects in our approaches to concurrent development. Parallelism is not a simple thing, or at least as of this writing it’s not. I do not profess to have the answers; if I did I would be retired to an island someplace, contemplating [...]

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Hi folks, been a while, I know. Job has a way of sucking up all free time. The autoconf project has stalled, not for lack of desire but rather for needing my time and resources to solve larger problems. Those larger problems are what this column is about. Probably no one but myself will read [...]

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