Monthly Archives: August 2004

A hand full of Queens

Posted on August 31, 2004 by Ken

Or: SML/Moscow ML is faster than C++/GCC Inspired by a remark by Peter about the abysmal performance of exceptions on the .NET platform. I decided to check it for myself with a micro-benchmark. I also decided to check the performance … Continue reading →

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mGTK progress

Posted on August 27, 2004 by Ken

Tonight I decided to try and port an example from Mono: A Developer’s Notebook to the upcoming release of mGTK. By joining forces with Henning we were able to compile the example for the following screenshot: The email entry-box is … Continue reading →

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My brother graduated

Posted on August 25, 2004 by Ken

Today my brother had his viva for his masters in Economics. And I’m proud to report that he passed with flying colours. His disseration was on Risk attitude and portfolio theory (my translation).

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Visitor pattern visited

Posted on August 24, 2004 by Ken

Hmm, my first blog entry. To get started, I’ll just write about a book I’m reading these days. I have a confession to make: I have been guilty of discarding some of the OOP patterns as “just papering over the … Continue reading →

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