...lternatives like HPET and ACPI PM timer, and automatically select the best one. It's a good idea to always use the kernel for timing unless you are really sure the TSC is stable and monotonic. – CesarB Jul 7 '09 at 23:03 ...

... There is one downside to this approach. std::function is not required to use move constructor whenever possible. This means that when you std::move(my_deleted_unique_ptr), contents enclosured by lambda will possibly be copied instead ...

...decorator to declare a method abstract, and declare a class abstract using one of three ways, depending upon your Python version. In Python 3.4 and above, you can inherit from ABC. In earlier versions of Python, you need to specify your class's metaclass as ABCMeta. Specifying the metaclass has dif...

... plus one for you sir for adding test cases. I've used those test cases for checking all the other answers. More people should go this extra bit. – Marty Neal Jan 7 '11 at 21:06 ...

...ise, it's more efficient to keep it a Substring. It would be great if someone could figure out a good way to merge these two extensions into one. I tried extending StringProtocol without success, because the index method does not exist there. Note: This answer has been already edited, it is properl...

...ssertEqual(23, person.getAge()) Then perhaps you need a single assertPersonEqual method, so that you can write assertPersonEqual(Person('Joe', 'Bloggs', 23), person). (Or perhaps you simply need to overload the equality operator on Person.) As you mention, it is important for test code to be rea...

... of design patterns in Wikipedia. It also mentions which patterns are mentioned by GoF. I'll sum them up here and try to assign as many pattern implementations as possible, found in both the Java SE and Java EE APIs. Creational patterns Abstract factory (recognizeable by creational methods returnin...

... yeah, that one only does info level when you want info, debug and trace to be logged to stdout but instead are ignored, right? – Dean Hiller Feb 24 '15 at 20:36 ...

...o pointers, meaning that if an expression of type char[] is provided where one of type char* is expected, the compiler automatically converts the array into a pointer to its first element. Your example function printSomething expects a pointer, so if you try to pass an array to it like this: char ...

...Default namespace to match. If you wish to also rename the namespace, open one of your class files. Right click the namespace → Rename.... This should search and replace all references to your namespace throughout the project. Close the project → rename the project folder. Edit the .sln file in ...