I want to know: What is android:weightSum and layout weight, and how do they work? 9 Answers ...

... think about it like a book. If there were only 3 kinds of words in a book and you index all of them, you would have the same number of index pages as normal pages. There would be a performance gain if there are relatively few records of one value. For example, if you have 1000 records and 10 of t...

I have tried to understand the difference between Lisp-1 and Lisp-2 and how this relates to Clojure but I still do not understand properly. Can anyone enlighten me? ...

I have a batch script that executes a task and sends the output to a text file. Is there a way to have the output show on the console window as well? ...

... The 6g and 8g compilers are not particularly optimising, so the code they produce isn't particularly fast. They're designed to run fast themselves and produce code that's OK (there is a bit of optimisation). gccgo uses GCC's existi...

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I'm trying to get a deeper understanding of how the low level operations of programming languages work and especially how they interact with the OS/CPU. I've probably read every answer in every stack/heap related thread here on Stack Overflow, and they are all brilliant. But there is still one thin...

...crement operation atomic; it involves synchronization at both the software and hardware levels that need not be present in an ordinary increment. You could make the argument that i++ should have been designed and documented as specifically performing an atomic increment, so that a non-atomic increm...

I know about int and long (32-bit and 64-bit numbers), but what are uint and ulong ? 5 Answers ...

I understand Big-O notation, but I don't know how to calculate it for many functions. In particular, I've been trying to figure out the computational complexity of the naive version of the Fibonacci sequence: ...