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Overload 149 · February 2019 (PDF)

Contents

• Rip It Up and Start Again.
  Some things can be resurrected, others cannot. Frances Buontempo wonders when we need to repent and start over.

• 5 Big Fat Reasons Why Mutexes Suck Big Time.
  Mutable shared state in multithreaded code is often protected by mutexes. Sergey Ignatchenko reminds us that Re-Actors can avoid many of the problems.

• A Small Universe.
  Writing a programming language is a hot topic. Deák Ferenc shows us how he wrote a compiler for bytecode callable from C++.

• QM Bites: Understand Windows Operating-System Identification Preprocessor Macros.
  Quality matters and bite sized articles help. Matthew Wilson returns with a QM Bites.

• A Thorough Introduction to Distributed Systems.
  What is a distributed system, and why is it so complicated? Stanislav Kozlovski explains.

• Don’t Use std::endl.
  How do you add a new line in C++? Chris Sharpe suggests std::endl is a tiny utility that’s more trouble than it’s worth.

• Afterwood.
  Good workers tidy up after themselves – it avoids accidents and makes them more productive. Chris Oldwood argues that good software developers should do the same.