Posted by Vakul Kumar More on April 13, 2008
Where do objects go when they aren’t used anymore (and how to know that they are no longer useful to the executing code that created them)? Might seem like a silly question to most developers, but that’s what Technical Fellow Patrick Dussud has been dealing with for most of his career. His special area of focus is implementing garbage collection (GC) in various programming languages and systems (from JScript to the CLR).
In this episode, we discuss with Patrick how GC concepts and implementations have evolved over the years, how the GC in the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) might be different from others, and how GC improvements in the future may need to change to deal with advancements in both software and hardware systems.
Patrick also has some interesting things to say about clowns.
This episode of Behind the Code is hosted by Robert Hess, Director in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group. Although new to hosting Behind the Code, Robert is no stranger to hosting technical shows. For more than seven years, he hosted The .NET Show, a popular on-demand webcast that focused on providing architectural and programming information to developers around the world.
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Posted by Vakul Kumar More on April 13, 2008
Despite a heady increase in the number of Internet Users and the growing penetration of broadband connections, Indian Internet speeds are far from satisfactory, says a recent study by Internettrafficreport.com. According to the data collected, India had an overall index of 74 and a response time of 253 milliseconds, compared to an index of 98 for the USA and a response time of just 13 milliseconds. Response time is the duration it takes for a packet of information to move from one point to another. The higher the response time, the slower the Net speeds. Surprisingly, even developing countries like Mexico and Peru have a higher Index than that of India. One of the reasons, according to Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI), is the artificial cap on the bandwidth which affects efficiencies. Poor quality is cited an another reason for sluggish broadband services in the country.
Source: Business India April ,2008.
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