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| | This blog is named after the Storm Petrel, Hydrobates pelagicus. It is a small bird, looking superficially like a swallow, and with a wingspan of less than 20 centimetres and a weight of about 30 grams. Looking back to my recent trip to South America, I see that the bird which made the biggest impression...
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| | In part 6 we tried to come up with a "manual" translation of a very simple async method. This time we'll see what the compiler really generates. As a reminder, here's the async method in question: privatestaticasync Task ReturnValueAsyncWithAssistance() { Task task = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => 5); returnawait task; } Whereas our manual code...
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| | Note: For the rest of this series, I'll be veering away from the original purpose of the project (investigating what the compiler is up to) in favour of discussing the feature itself. As such, I've added a requirement for AsyncCtpLib.dll - but due to potential distribution restrictions, I've felt it safest not to include that...
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| By Wim Vanderbauwhede Last year, in Perl land, I discussed the result of my attempts to optimize the performance of an expression parser which is part of my Perl-based Fortran source-to-source compiler. An expression parser takes strings representing expressions in a programming language (in my case Fortran) and turns it into a data structure called...