2 ms·

How many people need this level of depth?

• deleted 16y ago
  [deleted]
• tomjen3 16y ago
  A lot more than you would think - there are plenty of programmers out there that can't tell you the tradeoffs between the different approaches, and they can get away with it, because it appears to work (see thread synchronization, cross-site scripting, data-base injection, null pointers, pointer overflow, etc, etc) until somebody demonstrates that it doesn't.
  • glhaynes 16y ago
    thread synchronization, cross-site scripting, data-base injection, null pointers, pointer overflow Does TAOCP cover any of those?
    • deleted 16y ago
      [deleted]
    • tomjen3 16y ago
      I would expect it to have plenty of algorithms to implement mutexes with, as well as parallel sort algorithms. There are also going to be a lot of pointer based tricks that you don't get unless you really understand pointers.