Reliable Software is Hard

There is a really good post about writing reliable software and why it is so hard.
Damien's writing is really good, and he touches on many interesting subjects.
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Doug, A class that encapsulate a value. public class Reference { public T Value; } It allows to either see the p... Read all.

By Ayende Rahien on Trivial Lru Cache impl

Patrick, The problem with your approach is that Interlocked require all processors to sync their memory. In contrast, we e... Read all.

By Ayende Rahien on Trivial Lru Cache impl

cao, We don't actually care what the values are, we don't even care if they are accurate, sort-of should be good enough. Read all.

By Ayende Rahien on Trivial Lru Cache impl

Patrick, I am never certain what the indexer setter will do, and this is more obvious And the reason we do node.Count / 10 ... Read all.

By Ayende Rahien on Trivial Lru Cache impl

@Doug Probably because volatile long is not allowed, but volatile on a reference type is, hence the Reference<T>. Recentl... Read all.

By Ryan Heath on Trivial Lru Cache impl

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Reliable Software is Hard

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