This is officially the strangest optimization-related compiler bug I've ever seen. ... Read more

Recently wrote some asynchronous I/O code for a fast data loader. The data file was logically a stream of separate objects, so it made sense to parse it a chunk at a time. That's a situation which practically screams for asynchronous I/O. Unfortunately, it's rather hard to find a useful example on how to use the relevant APIs... ... Read more