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Sarath Lakshman
Personal blog · sarathlakshman.com · on HN as slynuxsystemsprogramming
Sarath Lakshman's personal blog at sarathlakshman.com covers systems and programming. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “A pitfall of golang scheduler”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts about Go green threads and scheduler pitfalls, and an autocomplete implementation example on Google App Engine with a Python service. HN readers cite them as references in discussions of those topics.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- A pitfall of golang scheduler3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-16
What Hacker News says?
No, the scheduler cannot preempt. The scheduler is called by the goroutine and given the opportunity to pause it whenever the goroutine does a channel send/receive or calls a non-inlined function or, of course, makes a blocking I/O call[1]. But the scheduler can't do anything if nobody calls it. To wit: http://www.sarathlakshman.com/2016/06/15/pitfall-of-golang-s... IIRC, work is underway (may be finished) to add a…
Comment linking /2016/06/15/pitfall-of-golang-scheduler
on “Green Threads Explained”Submitted A pitfall of golang scheduler as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI had written a Wifi based LTSP for Linux sometime ago. http://www.sarathlakshman.com/2010/03/14/wireless-ltsp/
Comment linking /2010/03/14/wireless-ltsp/
on “CoreOS: Boot on Bare Metal with PXE”Submitted A pitfall of golang scheduler as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think you are on Google app engine. You can add a python service for auto-suggest, an example here: http://www.sarathlakshman.com/2011/03/03/implementing-autoco...
Comment linking /2011/03/03/implementing-autocomplete-with-trie-data-structure/
on “Show HN: Find the best book prices across online stores in India”Submitted Cache friendliness and performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussion