It’s pretty intuitive: A program is CPU bound if it would go faster if the CPU were faster, i.e. it spends the majority of its time simply using the CPU (doing calculations). A program that computes new digits of π will typically be CPU-bound, it’s just crunching numbers. A program is I/O bound if it … Read more
In computer science terms, a Task is a future or a promise. (Some people use those two terms synonymously, some use them differently, nobody can agree on a precise definition.) Basically, a Task<T> “promises” to return you a T, but not right now honey, I’m kinda busy, why don’t you come back later? A Thread … Read more
Lambda comes from the Lambda Calculus and refers to anonymous functions in programming. Why is this cool? It allows you to write quick throw away functions without naming them. It also provides a nice way to write closures. With that power you can do things like this. Python def adder(x): return lambda y: x + … Read more
Model-View-Presenter In MVP, the Presenter contains the UI business logic for the View. All invocations from the View delegate directly to the Presenter. The Presenter is also decoupled directly from the View and talks to it through an interface. This is to allow mocking of the View in a unit test. One common attribute of … Read more
What’s the difference between an argument and a parameter?
Is null an instance of anything? No, there is no type which null is an instanceof. 15.20.2 Type Comparison Operator instanceof RelationalExpression: RelationalExpression instanceof ReferenceType At run time, the result of the instanceof operator is true if the value of the RelationalExpression is not null and the reference could be cast to the ReferenceType without … Read more
No, it’s not like any of those things. It’s simply the dynamic replacement of attributes at runtime. For instance, consider a class that has a method get_data. This method does an external lookup (on a database or web API, for example), and various other methods in the class call it. However, in a unit test, … Read more
It’s easiest to understand what non-lexical lifetimes are by understanding what lexical lifetimes are. In versions of Rust before non-lexical lifetimes are present, this code will fail: fn main() { let mut scores = vec![1, 2, 3]; let score = &scores[0]; scores.push(4); } The Rust compiler sees that scores is borrowed by the score variable, … Read more
Iteration is a general term for taking each item of something, one after another. Any time you use a loop, explicit or implicit, to go over a group of items, that is iteration. In Python, iterable and iterator have specific meanings. An iterable is an object that has an __iter__ method which returns an iterator, … Read more
What’s the difference between a method and a function?