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by kmod 6y ago
There's a minor but important point: the amount of work str() has to do depends on its input type. In particular, if arg.__str__() returns a string or a subtype of string or not a string, str() will call different tp_init functions.
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by kmod 6y ago
Yep! It's slightly worse than you would think. Here's a (slightly edited) version of how the argument passing works static PyObject * unicode_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds) { PyObject *x =
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by kmod 6y ago
I have to disagree that those are "interpreter" overheads, since the later versions of the benchmark do not use the Python interpreter at all yet still suffer from these overheads. Maybe disagreeing on the wording is pedantic tho
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by kmod 6y ago
That's a good question, I updated the post with a quick blurb on this. There may be a number of potential ways to distinguish them, so I gave the one that I was using for the blog post.
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by kmod 6y ago
This is what I get for hosting my own wordpress server. It was struggling and I installed a caching plugin which took down the site. Should be back up, sorry!
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by kmod 6y ago
I don't know PHP, but feel free to send a pull request!
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Python performance: it’s not just the interpreter(blog.kevmod.com)
318 points by kmod 6y ago|203 comments
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Leaked pics reveal Google smart debit card to rival Apple’s(techcrunch.com)
1 points by kmod 6y ago|0 comments
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by kmod 6y ago
It's interesting to note that the Bitcoin ecosystem depends on BGP being secure
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Zoom announces 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues(theverge.com)
2 points by kmod 7y ago|0 comments
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What You Should Know About Online Tools During the Covid-19 Crisis(eff.org)
1 points by kmod 7y ago|0 comments
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by kmod 7y ago
I agree that AWS has economies of scale that makes it hard to build a better/cheaper S3, but one way you can get around this problem is by building to lesser requirements. S3 has to work for all use cases, but if you know you need les
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by kmod 7y ago
Sure, let's dig into networking. Who pays for rereplication traffic? If you do 64-of-96 RS encoding, that means for every failure you need to transfer 64x the lost storage capacity. If you're targeting a "low individual uptim
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by kmod 7y ago
I worked on the design of Dropbox's exabyte-scale storage system, and from that experience I can say that these numbers are all extremely optimistic, even with their "you can do it cheaper if you only target 95% uptime" cavea
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Hong Kong Protest Photos Removed from Sony World Photography Awards(qz.com)
9 points by kmod 7y ago|0 comments
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Defeated Chess Champ Garry Kasparov Has Made Peace with AI(wired.com)
1 points by kmod 7y ago|0 comments
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RLax: A library for implementing reinforcement learning agents(github.com)
3 points by kmod 7y ago|0 comments
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iOS Performance tips you probably didn't know (from an ex-Apple engineer)(fadel.io)
3 points by kmod 7y ago|0 comments
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Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way(basecamp.com)
3 points by kmod 7y ago|1 comments
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by kmod 7y ago
HN has a 80-character title limit and it's not always clear how to paraphrase a longer title.
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Forcing consent before selling browser histories violates our free speech(theregister.co.uk)
86 points by kmod 7y ago|39 comments
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Google Just Gave Millions of Users a Reason to Quit Chrome(forbes.com)
54 points by kmod 7y ago|11 comments
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What's Wrong with Tech Folks Who Attack the Tech Media(hunterwalk.com)
1 points by kmod 7y ago|0 comments
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“Nearly every DeFi smart contract has an admin key.”(mobile.twitter.com)
1 points by kmod 7y ago|0 comments
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by kmod 7y ago
They're really in a different league. My favorite example is the ad-hoc stack analysis that Python lets you do -- and not just of the current stack, but of already-exited stack frames! This is free in CPython but prevents sizable perf
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How Amazon is solving big-data challenges with data lakes(allthingsdistributed.com)
3 points by kmod 7y ago|0 comments
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by kmod 7y ago
51% attacks on most currencies are quite easy if you attack the mining pools. http://blog.kevmod.com/2019/01/pooljacking-easy-51-attacks-a...
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New Kind of Student Loan Gains Major Support. Is There a Downside?(nytimes.com)
2 points by kmod 7y ago|0 comments
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Google’s rollout of RCS chat for all Android users in the US begins today(theverge.com)
1 points by kmod 7y ago|0 comments
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When Algorithms Decide Whose Voices Will Be Heard(hbr.org)
2 points by kmod 7y ago|1 comments

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