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Parallel Computing in Node.js via HPX Addons

brakmic

Tweet In this article, we will build a Node.js addon that uses HPX to execute certain algorithms. As you might have already seen on my blog, I have written some articles about HPX, a parallelization runtime & framework written in C++. You might also be asking yourself, why on Earth should...

Revisiting HPX

brakmic

Tweet It’s been a while since I last played around with HPX. Some time ago, in February 2016, I wrote an article about this excellent parallelization framework. Back then, I did everything on Windows, just to showcase that it’s possible to run it there. I even wrote a small tutorial on how to...

Reference Counting Things

Chad Austin

Reference counting is cheap and easy. An integer starts at one, increments on every new reference, and whoever decrements it to zero is responsible for deallocation. If references are shared across threads, increments and decrements must be atomic. Decades ago, I wrote an audio library that...

Qt ♥ TUIO

i'm special

Qt, as a framework, makes extensive use of touch - particularly on mobile and embedded devices. Unfortunately, Qt isn’t readily able to magically make touch input appear on hardware that doesn’t support it, which can make exact testing of touch-related code difficult in typical developer...