funny_falcon

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by funny_falcon 5y ago
Consensus on eventual consistency is eventual.
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by funny_falcon 5y ago
strcpy - is a standard library issue, not language one. Most C projects creates their own "string handling" routines. It is pity there is no alternative "standard library" with safer data struct and operations. There are
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by funny_falcon 5y ago
Afaik, Nginx used this hack for aio on FreeBSD many years. It is superrior to aio on Linux. That is why Netflix used nginx together with FreeBSD. Now nginx could use threads for file io, and linux file performance became ok as well.
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by funny_falcon 5y ago
iirc, they did. But it wasn't opensourced.
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by funny_falcon 5y ago
? Team on my previous workplace patched ElasticSearch to add functionality for years. Could thay do it if there were no open source Elastic?
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by funny_falcon 5y ago
There is single word from dog-owner - фу
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by funny_falcon 5y ago
I believe you would like https://janet-lang.org/ It is lisp-like language with Lua like semantic and implementation, but it is separate from them.
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by funny_falcon 5y ago
> Recursion and inheritance are interchangeable (in fact, either can be implemented as syntax sugar over the other) Did you mean Recursion and Iteration? Some recursion could be translated into iteration only if there is stack managed by
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by funny_falcon 5y ago
Nope. Its solution is "we made things uglier therefore you can mangle them in a way you like". Strong convention is much better than pleasure of everyone.
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by funny_falcon 5y ago
C was not "high level" system language at the beginning. It was almost pretty skin for assembler.
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by funny_falcon 6y ago
In fact, MySQL allows update of multiple tables. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4361774/mysql-update-mul...
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by funny_falcon 7y ago
fork is not friendly to concurrent programming: fibers/threads/callbacks - what should you do with all this after fork? While it is possible to create and manage some rules, it is simpler not to fork at all.
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by funny_falcon 7y ago
For example, if you want to execute "native" code in a restricted environment. WebAssembly is quite fast when (jit)compiled. Therefore, it's very tempting to use it to embed extension logic.
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by funny_falcon 8y ago
Ironically, java 1.0 had green threads.
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by funny_falcon 10y ago
binary-trees benchmark is much faster on Java than on Go.
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by funny_falcon 10y ago
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-09/msg00076.html
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by funny_falcon 14y ago
May be it would be better to reimplement protocol, like postgres-pr does but using java ? Protocol is rather simple, and postgres-pr could be used as a reference (it implements meaningfull subset).