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Subject:	Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Wed, 3 Jan 2001 16:34:22 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: > The LUGNET News search function is now re-enabled. I completely revamped > the index data structures and list-merge algorithm and rewrote the core > query engine in C. It's a much more solid implementation. All geeks capitulate sooner or later on perl vs C. Of course Larry (and many others I work with) would tell you to write that stuff in Java but that would be a step backwards. Congratulations! Of course it's stability depends greatly on your dilligence in policing your pointers. KL

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		Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
(...) I like Java. But this really needed to be close to the metal and generate code that would fit in the L1 cache for the non-memory-bus-bound portions of the loops. The GNU C compiler is incredible. (...) It's the best C code I've written in 12 (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
The LUGNET News search function is now re-enabled. I completely revamped the index data structures and list-merge algorithm and rewrote the core query engine in C. It's a much more solid implementation. Everyone's patience during the outage is much (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce) !!

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