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Python threads …
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Python threads: scheduling
Python threads suck! They do not have deterministic behaviour from scheduling point of view, i.e. one does not know when thread will run and how long will it run. And the main problem is that it likely...
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Python loving psto
I love languages with rich standard library. Python is just awesome in this regard. But amount of already written extension is outstanding – I parsed HTML using regexps in Lisp, but in Python with...
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Want to do it good – do it yourself
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO | SDL_INIT_AUDIO); Python does not have an audio library, which allows to asynchronously play music and control it in close enough to real time. Mainly I need a fast audio...
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Add support for Yandex.Fotki to Shotwell photo manager
Sent a 1100+ lines patch to add Yandex.Fotki support to Shotwell photo manager. Here is an announcement. UPD: Tracker http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2536 I fixed all issues to date, let’s see how this...
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Shotwell extension for Yandex.Fotki was committed
My 1100+ lines patch to add Yandex.Fotki support has been committed to Shotwell photo manager svn trunk (tracker: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2536 ) Yandex.Fotki is the biggest photo hosting in Russia...
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Moving forward
To date there are no major features requested by our users in elliptics network. We want to make some log messages refactoring, monitoring tools and the like. But overall it is considered complete....
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LevelDB benchmarks against Kyoto Cabinet and SQLite
Holy shit – who the hell tests DATABASE by writing thousands-to-millions records of 100 bytes? There is a test, where they run 1000 values of 100k each – a bit overkill for database, but yet it is...
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splice() syscall
I found that splice() syscall does not transfer data, when in and out file descriptors are the same or refer to the same file. Instead destination ‘space’ is filled with zeroes while supposed to...
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pthreads vs fork
Elliptics supports atomic server-side scripts execution, in particular there is python implementation for complex scripting tasks like directory structure support in pohmelfs. Python by its nature is a...
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Using ‘threading’ module apparently is not a very good idea $ python /tmp/threads.py # ... interrupt by Ctrl-C Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/threads.py", line 12, in...
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Python threads suck! They do not have deterministic behaviour from scheduling point of view, i.e. one does not know when thread will run and how long will it run. And the main problem is that it likely...
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I love languages with rich standard library. Python is just awesome in this regard. But amount of already written extension is outstanding – I parsed HTML using regexps in Lisp, but in Python with...
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Want to do it good – do it yourself
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO | SDL_INIT_AUDIO); Python does not have an audio library, which allows to asynchronously play music and control it in close enough to real time. Mainly I need a fast audio...
View ArticleAdd support for Yandex.Fotki to Shotwell photo manager
Sent a 1100+ lines patch to add Yandex.Fotki support to Shotwell photo manager. Here is an announcement. UPD: Tracker http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2536 I fixed all issues to date, let’s see how this...
View ArticleShotwell extension for Yandex.Fotki was committed
My 1100+ lines patch to add Yandex.Fotki support has been committed to Shotwell photo manager svn trunk (tracker: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2536 ) Yandex.Fotki is the biggest photo hosting in Russia...
View ArticleMoving forward
To date there are no major features requested by our users in elliptics network. We want to make some log messages refactoring, monitoring tools and the like. But overall it is considered complete....
View ArticleLevelDB benchmarks against Kyoto Cabinet and SQLite
Holy shit – who the hell tests DATABASE by writing thousands-to-millions records of 100 bytes? There is a test, where they run 1000 values of 100k each – a bit overkill for database, but yet it is...
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I found that splice() syscall does not transfer data, when in and out file descriptors are the same or refer to the same file. Instead destination ‘space’ is filled with zeroes while supposed to...
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Elliptics supports atomic server-side scripts execution, in particular there is python implementation for complex scripting tasks like directory structure support in pohmelfs. Python by its nature is a...
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