I seeded the 2008.05 release candidate for about 45 hours, ultimately shipping a little over 4100 megabytes. I’m going to take a break, because I want to update my DP2-based workstation and get some work done, but, once we have new bits, I’ll getting seeding again.
(I found the actual result: 4237MiB sent up, so [...]
It Must Be Time for Tea: Converting Projects to Mercurial
Mike talks about helping projects move from TeamWare to Mercurial. Large projects may have been running a project gate ("branch") for a year or more, and with a clear schedule in mind. Minimizing the cost of the main gate switching source code managemen
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Intel® Software Network Blogs » Making access to memory faster in OpenSolaris (and Core2)
Dave reports on performance improvements in OpenSolaris for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() on Core2-based systems.
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The View from the Moon: Finding bugs in python code, using DTrace
We've been using DTrace to check performance as we develop image packaging; here Dan reviews one of his recent wins. Because DTrace makes it extremely cheap to check for algorithmic mistakes, and the yields of correcting such mistakes are so high, it's c
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