Intel recently (re-) published a somewhat old document from the 2004's, " The 64-bit Tipping Point ". It has been slightly updated and is definitely worth reading if you are still considering to move to a 64-bit application model. The document compares the Itanium architecture to EM64T...
Recently, I've been pushing myself to learn things I always wanted to learn but never had time. The use of hardware, as opposed to software, breakpointing has always intriqued me as the functionality is at the processor. Not overwriting process memory is always a plus, right? Microsoft has a small...
Overview Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Release Candidate 1 (RC1) has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability. End user improvements include a streamlined interface, tabbed browsing, printing advances, improved...
On a hunt to figure out why my machine degrades in terms of performance after a night of being online, I finally discovered NVIDIA's new service on 64-bit platforms, "nvsvc64.exe", eats approximately eight bytes of memory every three seconds. Let's do the math... ~160 bytes of memory wasted per minute...