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There are many greplike tools available to choose from. ripgrep is currently the fastest, which folks seem to focus on, but they have different features. Here's a chart to help you see which tools can do what.
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Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster
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The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem. This leads to enormous amounts of wasted time and energy, both on the part of people asking for help, and on the part of those providing help.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] We also hit something like this with CPU affinity work in FreeBSD. Adding CPU affinity in a 24-core build machine made builds take longer....
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A customer's Go application kept crashing on a 32-bit embedded Linux system. We traced the fatal netpoll error to a pointer aliasing bug in the Go runtime.
Topics: Infrastructure
Entities: Infrastructure
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Root election, port roles, proposals and agreements, topology changes: explore RSTP through simulations powered by MSTPD compiled to WebAssembly.
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A stale read let a SQLite checkpoint discard committed WAL frames for sixteen years. We reproduce the race with a 100-line C workload, getting both lost writes and a corrupted database file within seconds using only the public SQLite API.
Topics: Databases
Entities: Databases
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A self-hosting and rewritten Porffor launches in SF next month!
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