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Professional way to produce a large problem without filling up huge arrays: C++, free memory from part of an array

I'm developing a physics simulation, and as I'm rather new to programming, I keep running into problems when producing large programs (memory issues mainly). I know about dynamic memory allocation and deletion (new / delete, etc), but I need a…
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Why generic interface cannot implement dynamic type?

If it possible IList = new List ; or class A { } class B: A { } Why it is not possible to do class U: IEnumerable {} ?
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Implementing a generic/dynamic custom property system in C#

I have an architecture design problem which I think is appropriate for this site. Note that I have made an EDIT to this post below, reflecting my latest potential solution to this problem. General problem description: My primary goal is to design a…
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Why don't Python and Ruby make a distinction between declaring and assigning a value to variables?

Two of the most popular dynamically typed scripting languages, Python and Ruby, do not make a distinction in syntax between the declaration of a variable and assignation of a value to it. That is in both languages, declaring a variable n and…
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Why is C# considered a statically-typed language, although it contains keywords such as `dynamic` and `var`?

C# is considered a statically-typed language. However, it contains keywords such as: var, which infers the type at compile time, and dynamic, which determines the type at runtime. Is this a contradiction?
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Dynamically add/change attributes of values in C#

I want to tag the values of variables with a "quality" attribute that can be changed dynamically during my programs execution. My first thought was to abuse the standard attribute functionality by tagging the value with my custom quality attribute. …
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Dynamic execution of Template Literals using a Map

I have a system that is generating internal events for objects. I am extending their debugger to display a human-readable version of the events sent to the debugger. For instance, the system will generate "OnClick" for the "Blue Button" control, on…
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Are there security implications to using dynamically-assigned TCP port numbers?

I'm getting pushback from operations for having a server process listen on a dynamically-assigned port number (i.e. it binds a socket to a port number of 0, triggering a dynamic assignment by the OS, which it retrieves using getsocketname()). The…
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Dynamic Scheduling Algorithm

Recently I got interested in scheduling problems or rather dynamic scheduling problem. The problem is that I want to develop some kind of layer in my application which will be polling circa about 50-100 e-mail boxes on regular basis. I do not have…
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Differences between Dynamic Dispatch and Dynamic Binding

I've been looking on Google for a clear diffrentiation with examples but couldn't find any. I'm trying to understand the differences between Dynamic Dispatch and Dynamic Binding in Object Oriented languages. As far as I understand, Dynamic Dispatch…
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Am I allowed to use a GPL dynamically-linked library if I'm developing on a proprietary runtime engine?

Basically, title. This is just me trying to clarify part of the GPL for myself. Let's say I'm developing a program that compiles and runs on a non-free runtime engine. I'm perfectly willing to share and license my own source code under the GPL, but…
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Addition or deletion of elements of a dynamic array

Is there any consensus among programmers (or a common convention) on the "right way" to deal with the addition or deletion of one or more elements of a dynamic (mutable) array at runtime while gracefully handling changes to the references to the…
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Ignoring the generic part of a type while an object is being passed

I have a message class that holds the name of a destination, and a generic variable acting as the message payload public class Message { public string Destination public T Payload // ... constructors, functions, etc. ... } This way,…
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Dynamic method creation in python

I have a class that will have a number of external methods that will all call the same smaller set of internal methods. So something like: obj.method_one(a, c) and obj.method_two(a, c) where obj.method_one calls obj._internal_method(a, c, y) and…
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What is the best way to handle dynamic content?

So we run a site where there are elements of the interface that could potentially be changed at any moment in the backend. Specifically we run a web service where certain functions are loaded dynamically. However, there are times where we remove…
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