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Posted by on 11th July, 2007

Sandbox new software

Sandbox new software

Don’t compromising your PC. I recently stumbled upon this tools that has received good reviews and its concept seems to make very good sense. It works very similar to the saved state or differencing in virtualization software: the differences are stored in a temporary storage that does not have access to the underlying system. Therefore, if you decide that the software you just tried, is no good, you can just delete the differences and everything returns to its original state. From the website: “When you run a program on your computer, data flows from the hard disk to the program via read operations. The data is then processed and displayed, and finally flows back from the progam to the hard disk via write operations. Sandboxie changes the rules such that write operations do not make it back to your hard disk. If you run Freecell inside the Sandboxie environment, Sandboxie reads the statistics data from the hard disk into the sandbox, to satisfy the read requested by Freecell. When...

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Posted by on 6th April, 2007

Speed Test: Switch vs If-Else-If

Speed Test: Switch vs If-Else-If

Most of the times when I have to make the choice it really depends on the case…maybe I have only to check one or two cases, in which case, I choose if/else. However, I knew there was some sort of performance issue with one over the other, but never really knew the details. Well, the folks at BlackWasp have doen some extensive research and determined the pro’s and con’s, in terms of speed, of each of these two approaches. The .NET framework and the C# language provide two methods for conditional processing where multiple discrete values can be selected from. The switch statement is less flexible than the if-else-if ladder but is generally considered to be more efficient. [button link=”http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/SpeedTestIfElseSwitch.aspx” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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