Alex van Beek

About Alex van Beek

I'm always keen to keep up with all the new and fancy technologies and I enjoy teaching those technologies to other people. I'm currently specialized in .Net, Flex, (enterprise) Silverlight and mobile development: Android and Windows Phone

C# and .NET don’t freeze when converting 2.2250738585072012e-308

I just read an interesing blog post: http://www.exploringbinary.com/java-hangs-when-converting-2-2250738585072012e-308/. It seems that both the Java compiler and the Java runtime freeze when trying to convert the string “2.2250738585072012e-308″ to a double. Next to that, the bug seems quite old and still … Continue reading