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Archive for March, 2006

Secure MSN Project

By ⋅ March 28, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

MSN Protocol description Packet Filtering in .NET Winsock Firewall Several OS win firewalls

JSR-184 (J2ME3D)

By ⋅ March 21, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Some useful links to explore the world of 3D inside J2ME. It looks to be pretty good since it does not overload the hardware too much (you do not get hardware acceleration obviously) and still you get pretty good results in handled hardware. I will post more on this. Getting started with mobile 3D API [...]

SSE & Scalar to SIMD

By ⋅ March 9, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

This post will be growing up in few days: Vector normalization done fast SSE @ ars tecnica The point looks to be in doing as much operations as possible shuffling the four components you have loaded in xmmN registers:

Multi-core Processors and untrustworthy papers

By ⋅ March 4, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

I was reading a paper about Multi-core (several processors in the same package) vs single packed processors and I rembered why I didn’t enjoyed very much IT papers. They tried to proof a multi-core architecure perform better than its older brother. They assume that a second processor in other package perform 80% and one in [...]

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