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Python-LMDB In a High-Performance Environment

Posted by Soulskill on from the fast-enough-to-cause-drama dept.

lkcl writes: In an open letter to the core developers behind OpenLDAP (Howard Chu) and Python-LMDB (David Wilson) is a story of a successful creation of a high-performance task scheduling engine written (perplexingly) in Python. With only partial optimization allowing tasks to be executed in parallel at a phenomenal rate of 240,000 per second, the choice to use Python-LMDB for the per-task database store based on its benchmarks, as well as its well-researched design criteria, turned out to be the right decision. Part of the success was also due to earlier architectural advice gratefully received here on Slashdot. What is puzzling, though, is that LMDB on Wikipedia is being constantly deleted, despite its "notability" by way of being used in a seriously-long list of prominent software libre projects, which has been, in part, motivated by the Oracle-driven BerkeleyDB license change. It would appear that the original complaint about notability came from an Oracle employee as well.

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  1. Re:Submitter doesn't understand Wikipedia notabili by Fwipp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, googling "python lmdb" shows up only documentation and lmdb blog updates on the first few pages, and also a link to this slashdot article. I don't see anybody interested in it or singing its praises.

    It's okay that your pet project isn't wikipedia-noteworthy yet. Concentrate on your evangelism (like, get at least one person who isn't you to write about it), and then try submitting again once you have some sources to cite.

  2. Deletionists by HeckRuler · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I never understood the deletionist mentality on Wikipedia. But there's a whole group of people that want to remove information from the public view.

    I semi-understand the idea that this "very important" encyclopedia is "too important" for such things as a page for each character from a game I never played. And somehow by culling these frivolous thing they somehow make wikipedia higher quality on the whole? Maybe? Kinda? I don't think these people understand how search works.

    There are the obvious shills and PR people that want to sweep things under the rug. These are nefarious and to be found and fought.

    There are fools who think it's expensive to store this information. As if an edit-war to remove it was cheaper.

    I understand people don't want articles that are just free advertising. But I doubt anyone is going to delete the page for Monanto.

    But fundamentally, I just don't get their worldview.