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Knuth Got It Wrong

Posted by kdawson on from the to-be-or-not-to-be-heap dept.

davecb writes "Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again. Poul-Henning Kamp, in an article at ACM Queue, finds an off-by-ten error in btrees, because they fail to take virtual memory into account. And he solves the problem in the open source 'Varnish' HTTP accelerator, for all of us to see and use."

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  1. KDawson is a(n) [....] by FlyingGuy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pick your deriding descriptive term.

    How in the hell did he ever get promoted or appointed or how ever the hell it is you become one of the anointed few who decide what gets posted on /. and what the headline looks like? I mean really, is he related to someone? Is he the owners kid, nephew, love child?

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    Hey KID! Yeah you, get the fuck off my lawn!