occasionalreedr

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1. 1.▲
   by occasionalreedr 10y ago

   > I hope the WebKit guy can release it as a standalone library that will benefit many C++ developers. +1. Even just the WTF::Lock, WTF::Condition and supporting code would be useful.
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   by occasionalreedr 10y ago

   Code here: https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WTF/wtf/... https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WTF/wtf/..
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   by occasionalreedr 10y ago

   Please replace the very slow Mac OS X pthread_mutex locks with the WTF::Lock implementation to benefit all applications. I can live with it still being 64 bytes and the scheduling being not completely fair. The OS X pthread mutexes are seve
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   by occasionalreedr 10y ago

   C Python uses ref counting, whereas Node/V8 uses GC. Ref counting schemes generally use much less memory and GC scans can be expensive when there's a lot of new data, as is the case for a web server.
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   by occasionalreedr 10y ago

   The code is pretty easy to grok. Well commented and supported by thousands of tests.
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   by occasionalreedr 10y ago

   How does svaarala do it? He's a one person coding machine. Fantastic work.