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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. Re:as Knuth told me when I was at his house by oldhack · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why doesn't somebody tell me these things? I need to know stuff like this.

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    Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
  2. Re:Crank it to 11 by The+Bean · · Score: 1, Redundant

    There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't...