... in the branch prediction table moving the branch eliminated the alias and allowed the branch to be predicted correctly Your Core2 doesn't keep a separate history record for each conditional jump. Instead it keeps a shared history of all conditional jumps. One disadvantage of global branch predic...

...ou wouldn't use either of the last two for long running processes. You normally see it when you're trying to update the UI (always on the main thread) from something that may be running on another thread. share | ...

...20 vs. 10^6. It should indeed be written 1MiB (with proper case) but is usually shown in lower case, without th "i". See Mebibyte. – Matthieu Mar 3 at 12:09 ...

... SHA-256 isn't an "encoding" - it's a one-way hash. You'd basically convert the string into bytes (e.g. using text.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) and then hash the bytes. Note that the result of the hash would also be arbitrary binary data, and if you want to represent that in a strin...

...hingElse = function() { return someModule.doSomething() + "bar"; }; Basically, CommonJS specifies that you need to have a require() function to fetch dependencies, an exports variable to export module contents and a module identifier (which describes the location of the module in question in relat...

...ating an array N points and node[k] is the kth (from 0 to N-1). If that is all that is confusing you, hopefully you can use that now. (in other words, k is an array of size N that is defined before the code fragment starts, and which contains a list of the points). Alternatively, building on the o...

... Calendar objects are generally considered quite large, so should be avoided when possible. A Date object is going to be better assuming it has the functionality you need. "Date date=new Date(millis);" provided in the other answer by user AVD is going ...

...of hg having auto-add whenever I try to commit a change it wants to commit all files. But I don't want that because certain files are not "ready" yet. ...

I understand passing in a function to another function as a callback and having it execute, but I'm not understanding the best implementation to do that. I'm looking for a very basic example, like this: ...

...iewParam name="id" value="#{bean.id}" /> </f:metadata> does basically the following: Get the request parameter value by name id. Convert and validate it if necessary (you can use required, validator and converter attributes and nest a <f:converter> and <f:validator> in it like...