Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 10 years ago. Improve this question I always read “web designer”, “web developer”, and “web programmer”, but don’t understand the difference between them. What is the difference? An example … Read more
I am reading up on Transactional Memory (TM), and one of the papers I’m reading says[1]: Indeed, it was two nonblocking algorithms, the obstruction-free DSTM and lock-free FSTM that reinvigorated STM research in the past decade. I was under the impression that lock imply obstruction. Apparently, I was wrong… What is the difference between the … Read more
I just cant understand whats the diffrence between them… is SPMD is in the programming level and SIMD in the hardware level ? example would be good ! thanks Answer SIMD is vectorization at the instruction level – each CPU instruction processes multiple data elements. SPMD is a much higher level abstraction where processes or … Read more
Title says it all. What, if any, Is the difference between a software ‘release’ and a ‘version’? Do these two definitions overlap? Is it the case that all releases, and release candidates are versions, but not all versions are releases? Answer Here’s a simplistic explanation: Build − executable or a library created by compiling source … Read more
I have heard this term used for managing a code base in GitHub. What does it mean? Answer As noted within the GitHub docs: The Fork & Pull Model lets anyone fork an existing repository and push changes to their personal fork without requiring access be granted to the source repository. The changes must then … Read more
What’s the difference in the outcome between call by reference and copy/restore? Background: I’m currently studying distributed systems. Concerning the passing of reference parameters for remote procedure calls, the book states that: “the call by reference has been replaced by copy/restore. Although this is not always identical, it is good enough”. I understand how call … Read more
I know that this probably doesn’t really matter, but I would like to know what is correct. If a piece of code contains some version of throw new SomeKindOfException(). Do we say that this piece of code can potentially raise an exception? Or throw an exception? The keyword is throw, so I am kind of … Read more
This question already has answers here: Closed 8 years ago. Possible Duplicate: What is the difference between a ‘function’ and a ‘procedure’? I searched online for an answer to this question, and the answer I got was that a function can return a value, modify a value, etc., but a subroutine cannot. But I am … Read more
In Flexbox there are concepts of “main-axis” and “cross-axis”. Generally on a browser the “main-axis” would be horizontal, presumably because desktop and laptop screens are usually in landscape orientation, whereas in React Native, the “main-axis” is generally vertical since it’s primarily for phones, which are most often in portrait orientation. Whichever of these is the … Read more
For me, a path was always something that “walks the way to something”, but without the “something”. Like a chicken following bread crumbs until it hits the target. But the target is not part of the path. That’s what I believe. So, example: C:/foo/bar = the path. C:/foo/bar/something.html = Path and the “Target”. Can someone … Read more
