Context switch can be 3 times slower in virtual environment such as VMware ESX

Tsuna analyzes how match time it takes to make a context switch. All analyzed chips are Multi-core Intel CPUs. OS / scheduler used – standard Linux Kernel. Results: depends on what we call a context switch (theoretical / real world) and what we measure is: 1000 ns – 4500 ns (up to 45000 ns – …

VS2010: Project not selected to build for this solution configuration

Along with everyone we are moving towards 64-bit platforms. After adding solution platform x64 under Visual Studio 2010 Configuration Manager, everything seemed ok. When building, all builds was successful except x64 Release. Here is an output: 1>—— Skipped Build: Project: abc, Configuration: Release x64 —— 1>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration 2>—— …

x64 C# warning – Referenced assembly ‘System.Data.dll’ targets a different processor

Using Visual Studio 2010 C# to compile .NET project for Target Platform x64, the following two warnings appears: —— Rebuild All started: Project: TestProject-64-bit, Configuration: Debug x64 —— warning CS1607: Assembly generation — Referenced assembly ‘System.Data.dll’ targets a different processor warning CS1607: Assembly generation — Referenced assembly ‘mscorlib.dll’ targets a different processor Compile complete — …