josephsweeney

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   How I Made My SIMD Code 1700x Faster Without Writing Any Intrinsics(bhavana.io)

   2 points by josephsweeney 2y ago|0 comments
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   Hate Being a SWE? Why It's Probably Your Fault(bhavana.io)

   2 points by josephsweeney 2y ago|0 comments
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   by josephsweeney 9y ago

   You're definitely correct. This project is still in its early stages so no one is really using it yet, so its easy in the sense that I just have to change the hashing algorithm. No need to worry about backwards compatibility.
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   by josephsweeney 9y ago

   Mainly because SHA1 was convenient, but also Git uses SHA1. See this Linus rant: https://marc.info/?l=git&m=148787047422954 Most of that argument applies, but if it ever becomes a problem, we should be able to move to s
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   by josephsweeney 9y ago

   There actually isn't any database outside of a directory of files. The version control is done the same way that Git works under the hood but written from scratch in C. Essentially, we have a database directory with two sub-directories
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   by josephsweeney 9y ago

   It actually doesn't use another database. Just uses plain old files for storage. It takes after Git where it stores each piece of data in a file with the name of the file as the hash of the data.
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   by josephsweeney 9y ago

   Creator here, this project is still in an early state, but if anybody has any questions I'd be happy to answer.
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   Show HN: VersionDB – A key, value store inspired by Git(github.com)

   9 points by josephsweeney 9y ago|9 comments