leonidg

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   Traceroute in 40 lines of Python(blog.ksplice.com)

   73 points by leonidg 16y ago|7 comments
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   by leonidg 16y ago

   You are totally right, if all I wanted to do was figure out how many total rows there were, and needed to do this often, it would make much more sense to store that number in a separate table. Unfortunately, those particular queries were j
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   by leonidg 16y ago

   That's a good question, and one I'm not entirely sure about. My guess is that the index itself is also scattered across the disk, since it gets added to at the same time as the rows get added. So in the real query, where we are reading ac
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   Constant factors: constantly foiling you(blog.ksplice.com)

   29 points by leonidg 16y ago|11 comments