[lug] Development & reporting tool choices

[Zan Lynx]

zooko wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2009, at 13:18 PM, Zan Lynx wrote:
> 
>> I have a project that can do a lookup in 3 microseconds, using a 
>> series of cache aligned, prefetched b+trees.  It takes a *lot* longer 
>> in pure Perl.
> 
> Is it Free/Open-Source Software?  I have some ideas about implementing a 
> new in-memory data structure, and would love to learn from example.

No, it's a proprietary thing for work.

I can't say that it was particularly difficult, but it was time 
consuming.  Basically a series of: think of a new approach, implement 
it, measure it and usually discard it.

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Zan Lynx
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