Communications of the ACM
Practice Archive
The Practice archive provides access to all Practice articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
October 2010
From Communications of the ACM
Photoshop Scalability: Keeping It Simple
Clem Cole and Russell Williams discuss Photoshop's long history with parallelism, and what is now seen as the chief challenge.
From Communications of the ACM
Thinking Clearly About Performance, Part 2
More important principles to keep in mind when designing high-performance software.
From Communications of the ACM
Tackling Architectural Complexity with Modeling
Component models can help diagnose architectural problems in both new and existing systems.