...nks for the value-able input. I could not see what the OP was missing from my answer. Indeed, registers stay where they are, only their value is sent to the RAM from the CPU. In the amd64 mode, this gets a bit more complex, but leave that to another question. – wigy ...

... I used this code for a while and it worked great, until my extension requested a new permission on an update (which suspends the extension until the user accepts the permission). When the permission was accepted and the extension was unsuspended, the onInstalled event never fired ...

... are used in computer science and programming are quite different. Here is my interpretation: Concurrency: Interruptability Parallelism: Independentability So what do I mean by above definitions? I will clarify with a real world analogy. Let’s say you have to get done 2 very important tasks i...

...ence it would be even better if private variables where public!) I updated my answer with a section which I think better addresses the actual why. – aioobe Jun 29 '17 at 23:05 ...

... @uriel: Yes, I mentioned this in the 1st item in my answer - the text "(parallel implementation)". – user811773 Oct 20 '11 at 19:38 ...

...4.0.0.0. The new in-process side-by-side feature should not change this. My guess: there were already too many .NET projects out there that broke the "never reference anything in the GAC directly" rule. I've seen it done on this site several times. Only one way to avoid breaking those projects: ...

...f capability here, but that's a given if you want multiple inheritance. my rather convoluted example of the above is available at https://github.com/cwolves/Fetch/blob/master/support/plugins/klass/klass.js Note that there is some dead code in that file, but it allows multiple inheritance if you ...

...ves only very simple scenarios to be utilizing indexed views, something in my opinion can be optimized by creating proper indexes on underlying tables anyway. I will be thrilled to hear some real life scenarios where people have actually used indexed views to their benefit and could not have done w...

...t if whatwg says it cannot be done; then that's the answer. Workaround for my current need added below. – Ian Boyd Sep 17 '13 at 15:45 ...

...n use the constructor property to test the type of the object like so: var myArray = [1,2,3]; (myArray.constructor == Array); // true So, that works well enough for most needs. That said... Caveats Will not work AT ALL in many cases This pattern, though broken, is quite common: function Thingy() { ...