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The magical Futex

Posted on 2010-08-11 by Owen Shepherd

Its rare that computing creates something as elegant as the Futex: A simple and highly elegant system on top of which all the important synchronization primitives can be built, which has minimal overhead, and which is screamingly fast. Its even … Continue reading →

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I believe in UDI

Posted on 2010-07-23 by Owen Shepherd

UDI is the Uniform Driver Interface. It provides a standard, high performance interface for operating system device drivers, and is standardised at all the important levels – both API and ABI. This means you can take a driver – regardless … Continue reading →

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