borman

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   by borman 5y ago

   > where lowest latency is needed Not so sure it would even be "the lowest", rather than "low enough, stable and predictable", even if it's higher on average than optimal. For example, comparing a hashtable lookup
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   by borman 5y ago

   Funny that compilers (e.g. clang: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/b04148f77713c92ee5... ) might be able to do that only because someone on the compiler team has hand-coded a bswap expression detecto
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   by borman 8y ago

   Another analogy that comes to mind would be 'going to gym'. Short-term, working out is exactly a heat loss (doing hard work with no useful results). But long-term, it makes you healthier and able to do more things. Back to corpora
4. 4.▲
   by borman 9y ago

   > Therefore, under memory pressure (especially if you set swappiness to zero), you will be preferentially swapping out your program code (because it is always clean) in preference to your program data. Regarding systems with near 100% ut
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   by borman 11y ago

   The problem with all (widely known) the non-standard JSON packages is, they all have their gotchas. cjson's way of handling unicode is just plain wrong: it uses utf-8 bytes as unicode code points. ujson cannot handle large numbers (som