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by ato 12y ago
This looks like it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102343 I guess they applied that change which was obviously written against a very different init script where the variable is actually defined, got QA to tes
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by ato 14y ago
The index for Wayback is a massive sorted text file (called a CDX) containing a line for each URL and timestamp. For very large installations this index is sharded across multiple servers and queried in parallel. The lookups are done using
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by ato 17y ago
Indeed, perhaps it would be a better way to model the problem, I considered it but perhaps rejected it incorrectly. By default Clojure uses a thread-pool for atoms so it wouldn't be a new thread for each request, the overhead is just a que
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by ato 17y ago
Thanks. Yeah, fast anything code tends to be not very pretty to look at and I'm not a very experienced lisper. But fortunately in most real-world programs the part that is performance critical tends to be very small compared to the rest o
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by ato 17y ago
It's not really an 32-core machine. It's an 8 core UltraSPARC T1, each core supporting 4 hardware threads. Also this is the sort of problem that C absolutely kills at. C can just mmap the file and run straight across raw the bytes and ta
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by ato 19y ago
"You could conceivably lose half your brain and live. Which means your brain could conceivably be split into two halves and each transplanted into different bodies." Unfortunately this does not follow. In most cases, if you lose half your b