Samer Ibrahim's BlogThe Samer I Warrior on battles with .NETGlobal Assembly Cache (aka GAC) is a Misnomer: How "global" is it- March 12, 2004 In every .NET programmer's life, heshe must come to terms with (at least one would hope) the Global Assembly Cache, aka the GAC. Simply put, the GAC is place for strongly named .NET DLLs to be placed so that they may be shared across multiple applications. This provides developers a way to place their DLL once on a machine and have multiple applications using it without the fear of name conflicts or problems with different versions of the DLL. In theory, the GAC should...http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/03/11/88323.aspx Hardware-based Byte-code Interpreters: Are they all they are cracked up to be- March 11, 2004 Today I was made aware that Intel is amidst an initiative to create chips capable of interpreting Java byte-code in the same way a normal ship would interpret assembly. Now I really don't know much about chips but upon hearing this I thought to myself "Wow... that's really going to make Java's performance skyrocket past .NET's." I mentioned this to one of my trainer instructors (I'm still in training at work) who in turn told me he didn't believe this was such a big deal or a big...http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/03/10/87717.aspx |