Monday, June 14, 2010

Timings using SSD

If you're an ASP.NET developer like myself, you don't want to waste time fiddling with your thumbs while you wait for your compiler to finish its work. We're always on the lookout for things that can help us speed up our work, to give us those extra seconds of performance boost.  And one thing that's been a challenge to us is the fact that our processors may be really fast but the bottleneck kicks in when we are working on a huge project with thousands of files. For additional insight on this, see Scott Guthrie's blog entry ( http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/01/tip-trick-hard-drive-speed-and-visual-studio-performance.aspx )

This is where I thought I would be assisted by that new kid on the block: Solid State Drive. 


What a line of code

I didn't know this line of code (in any language) will make sense but apparently it does: auto l = [](){}; Look at all those bracke...