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Peter Griess
Personal blog · blog.std.inprogrammingsystems
Peter Griess's personal blog at blog.std.in covers programming and systems. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Using sendfile with node.js”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Peter Griess's blog for its post on using sendfile(2) with Node.js, a zero-copy way to transfer files. One commenter recommends it as a useful read, while noting it is slightly outdated.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog by Peter Griess about technical things, very infrequently updated.
Most-linked posts?
- Using sendfile with node.js3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-01-06
What Hacker News says?
You might want to read this interesting (albeit slightly outdated) post about leveraging `sendfile` in Node.JS by Peter Griess: http://blog.std.in/2010/09/09/using-sendfile-with-nodejs/
Comment linking /2010/09/09/using-sendfile-with-nodejs/
on “Efficient data transfer through zero copy in Java”Submitted Using sendfile with node.js as a story · 5 points
HN discussionyou can now use sendfile; as ry says: "A portable sendfile [...], thanks to Marc Lehmann. It's undocumented because it's an unstable API for now. I wouldn't mind a contribution for a test/simple/test-sendfile.js" [1]. . Also see Using sendfile(2) with NodeJS [2]. ---- [1]: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.nodejs/... [2]: http://blog.std.in/2010/09/09/using-sendfile-with-nodejs/
Comment linking /2010/09/09/using-sendfile-with-nodejs/
on “Streaming a PNG with node.js”Submitted Design of Web Workers for node.js as a story · 1 points
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