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Re:63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions by neotek on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:21PM (#21320100)
>One XFest he stood on stage giving a Powerpoint presentation on debugging and multithreaded concerns. An animation was slow, and he broke into it and started debugging Powperpoint live to demonstrate some of his techniques. A legend.

Is there a video of this somewhere? Sounds amazing.

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Re:63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions by brucedawson on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:31PM (#21320155)
To be clear, the profiling of Powerpoint in the middle of the presentation was a stunt, planned in advance. I just didn't tell anybody I was going to do that.

At that point I was an ex-Microsoft person giving a talk at a Microsoft conference using Microsoft tools to profile Microsoft's presentation software. It may have been a cheeky thing to do, but it was so much fun.

I'm not aware of any publicly available video but I did a writeup of the issue: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/powerpoint-poor...

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