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Tag Archives: pageheap
No Start Menu for You
I tend to launch most programs on my Windows 10 laptop by typing the <Win> key, then a few letters of the program name, and then hitting enter. On my powerful laptop (SSD and 32 GB of RAM) this process … Continue reading
Posted in Code Reliability, Debugging, Investigative Reporting, Performance, Programming, Rants, uiforetw, xperf
Tagged hangs, pageheap, Windows 10 abandonware
28 Comments
Making Windows Slower Part 2: Process Creation
Windows has long had a reputation for slow file operations and slow process creation. Have you ever wanted to make these operations even slower? This weeks’ blog post covers a technique you can use to make process creation on Windows … Continue reading
Posted in Code Reliability, Investigative Reporting, Performance, Programming, Quadratic
Tagged Application Verifier, crashing, pageheap
7 Comments
Increased Reliability Through More Crashes
Shipping games that don’t crash is hard, and it’s important to use every tool available to try to find bugs. Static code analysis is one technique that I’ve discussed in the past and for some classes of bugs it is … Continue reading
Posted in AltDevBlogADay, Code Reliability, Programming
Tagged crashing, overruns, pageheap
18 Comments