Welcome to part three! As promised heres a description of the inner workings.  I’m sick to death of typing SocketAsyncEventArgs so from now on I will refer to it as SAEA. BocketPool The BocketPool has an interesting name and with it an interesting constructor! It takes the following parameters: number: The number of items to create in the BocketPool. size: The size of each buffer in bytes. callback: A callback function which is invoked whenever the SAEA object completes its operation. 1 2 3 4 5 6 type[...]

Welcome to part three!As promised heres a description of the inner workings. I’m sick to death of typing SocketAsyncEventArgs so from now on I will refer to it as SAEA.

Java vs C# As Jon Skeet pointed out in this excellent article on closures, the strategies of capturing the execution context which the behaviour is bound to different between Java and C#. C# captures the variable itself, whereas Java captures the value of the variable. To illustrate the difference, here’s Jon’s original example in C#: [...]

In my last post I explained the difference between the techniques of Currying and Partial Application, following on where there let me show you how you might apply these two techniques in F#, Javascript and C#. F# Starting with F#, being a functional language it makes currying and partial application dead easy (considering that they [...]

Recently I have come across some really interesting questions and debates around these two terms and how they differ from one another. There seems to be widespread confusions with many examples demonstrates one whilst intends another, and some simply uses the terms interchangeably. Whilst admittedly not being a function programming expert, I’ve spent a bit [...]