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Faux' blog
20192019-10-02:
Spooky Exit At A Distance
[1]20182018-12-31:
2018 in (failed) projects
[2]2018-10-09:
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Faux' blog
Faux' blog
I am personally opposed to
async, futures, promises; whatever you call it.
It is almost never appropriate for application or library development,
yet widely proposed as a good solution to ...
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Faux' blog: Everyday Shell
wget -np --mirror --accept='*-perl*.html' https://example.com/foo/
This actually produces the right output, but... it downloads all the files, then deletes the ones that it
doesn't want to keep. My ...
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Faux' blog: New blog
My blog used to be hosted using self-hosted WordPress.
As part of the most recent yak shaving machine migration, I'd decided to eliminate
PHP from normal web serving. I looked at a number of static s...
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Faux' blog
Faux' blog
xargs and
split. It takes a bunch of lines,
and sends them to a number of child processes. Each process sees
only one of the lines.
e.g.
...will give you 8 temporary files (on an 8-core ...
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Faux' blog: Java's ZipFile performance
That is, you give it more threads, and the throughput increases; the overall time goes down.
The following graph shows, in blue, the Sun's java.util.zip.ZipFile time to complete a set of unzips on an ...