Any task that tests your mental muscles is a step in the right direction when improving your problem-solving skills. While ...

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...

Going to the database repeatedly is slow and operations-heavy. Caching stores recent/frequent data in a faster layer (memory) ...