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Webkit - Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme
Just three months ago, the WebKit team announced SquirrelFish, a major revamp of our JavaScript engine featuring a high-performance bytecode interpreter.
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Systems & Performance
The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 11 posts.
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Scaling on EC2 - WebMynd's experiences (YC Winter '08)
Being an extension on the Recommended List brings explosive growth. This is an overview of some the things we’ve done to contain that expansion.
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Optimizing HTTP headers for ‘ajax’ webapps
Mibbit is a fully featured IRC Client. Allowing you to interact realtime with your friends. Chat, play games, colaborate on projects together and more.
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GCC hacks in the Linux kernel
The open source operating system that runs the world.
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Code Reuse in Google Chrome Browser
As everyone already knows, Google released a new open-source web browser called Chrome. Having interest in code reuse, I downloaded the source code and examined all the open-source libraries used. Google Chrome browser shows excellent example of code reuse. I found that they use at least 25 different software...
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Official Google Blog: Sorting 1PB with MapReduce
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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"Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching it"
Browse, technical articles, tutorials, research papers, and more across a wide range of topics and solutions.
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A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb, Part 1
In this series I will detail what I found out empirically about how mochiweb performs with lots of open connections, and show how to build a comet application using mochiweb, where each mochiweb connection is registered with a router which dispatches messages to various users. We end up with a working application that…
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Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync
How to make easy, automated snapshot-style backups with rsync and UNIX