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The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2009. 62 posts.

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A performance comparison of Judy to hash tables

Sean Barrett2009cited by 10Software Engineering details

Numerous claims about Judy's performance are made in the Judy whitepaper . I don't think any of those claims are wrong. However, it does not appear that sufficient effort was put in benchmarking Judy against other data structures. Now, it is unlikely there is another data structure that is both as fast and as small as…

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Basics of the Unix Philosophy

Eric S. Raymond2009cited by 13Software Engineering details

The ‘Unix philosophy’ originated with Ken Thompson's early meditations on how to design a small but capable operating system with a clean service interface. It grew as the Unix culture learned things about how to get maximum leverage out of Thompson's design. It absorbed lessons from many sources along the way.