Generic type parameters were introduced in C# 2.0, and they gave us the ability to write code that works against any type that matches a set of constraints and remove the need to create type-specific overloads, e.g.: A few years passed, and dynamic types was introduced in C# 4, which allows us to bypass compile-time …
In C#, when you define an event in your class, e.g.: the event handlers will be serialized along with other properties, etc. This is because under the hood, the compiler translates your event into the following, as can be seen through JetBrain’s dotPeek decompiler: Since the generated EventHandler is not marked with the [NonSerialized] attribute …
.Net Tips – use [field:NonSerialized] to stop serializing your event handlers Read More »
Note: don’t forget to check out the Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers. A little while ago I put together a quick performance test comparing the BCL’s BinaryFormatter with that of Marc Gravell‘s protobuf-net library (.Net implementation of Google’s protocol buffer format). You can read more about my …
I stumbled upon this interesting question on StackOverflow today, Jon Harrop’s answer mentions a significant overhead in adding and iterating over a SortedDictionary and Map compared to using simple arrays. Thinking about it, this makes sense, the SortedDictionary class sorts its constituent key-value pairs by key, which will naturally incur some performance overhead. F#’s Map …
Performance Test – SortedDictionary vs Dictionary vs Map vs Array Read More »
Following my back-to-back talks with the UK Developers Group and NxtGenUG Southampton, I just like to say thanks those guys for having me, it’s been a great pleasure :-) For anyone interested, here are the links to the slides and the source code I used for the demo. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/theburningmonk/introduction-to-aspect-oriented-programming Source Code: http://aop-demo.s3.amazonaws.com/AopDemo.zip
Problem The square root of 2 can be written as an infinite continued fraction. The infinite continued fraction can be written, ?2 = [1;(2)], (2) indicates that 2 repeats ad infinitum. In a similar way, ?23 = [4;(1,3,1,8)]. It turns out that the sequence of partial values of continued fractions for square roots provide the …
Problem Consider the fraction, n/d, where n and d are positive integers. If n < d and HCF(n,d)=1, it is called a reduced proper fraction. If we list the set of reduced proper fractions for d <= 8 in ascending order of size, we get: 1/8, 1/7, 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 2/7, 1/3, 3/8, 2/5, 3/7, …
Note: Don’t forget to check out Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers. Follow on from my previous test which showed that the ServiceStack.Text JSON serializer was the top dog in town, I came across a little library called fastJson on codeplex so naturally I had to test it …
Indexer If your have a type that represents a collection of values, adding a custom indexer gives you a natural way to index directly into the object using the .[ ] operator. Take this simple Calendar class for instance, which keeps a map (F# equivalent of a Dictionary<TKey, TValue>) of notes against DateTime values: By …
F# – Adding custom indexer and slicer to your type Read More »
To install pip on Windows, you need to first install its predecessor – easy install. However, if you’re using a 64-bit distribution of Python then the .exe installers here will give you this error when you run it: This is due to a distutils installer compatibility issue, but all’s not lost, you just need to …
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