Dr. Dobb's Digest, April 2009

EDITOR'S NOTE

Open Source Meets Mobility
Jonathan Erickson


TECHNO-NEWS

Fuzzy Logic Reveals Cells Inner Workings


FEATURES

A Moving Target
Avo Reid
A CTO looks at the development issues in choosing a mobile platform.

A First Look at Larrabee New Instructions
Michael Abrash
LRBni is a very different -- and fascinating -- extension to the x86 instruction set.

Smartphone Operating Systems: A Developer's Perspective
Tom Thompson
For developers, the battle lines are forming in the smartphone wars.

Three Reasons for Moving to Multicore
Christopher Diggins
Performance is at the head of the class.

Bug Labs BUG Update
Mike Riley
With the release of the 1.4, the BugLabs folks are still in the modular system programming game in a serious way.


COLUMNS

Conversations
Jonathan Erickson
Dr. Dobb's talks with the Symbian Foundation's Lee Williams.

Book Review
Mike Riley
Examining Hello Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform.

Effective Concurrency
Herb Sutter
What are thread pools for, and how can you use them effectively?