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tdg5
Personal blog · blog.tdg5.comprogramming
tdg5 is a personal blog at blog.tdg5.com about programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on tuning dd block size, which one commenter cites to show Linux nearing peak throughput with a 16 kB buffer. Neither comment judges the writing itself.
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.
Misadventures in programming!
What Hacker News says?
I wondered why tail call optimization isn’t on by default. Found this in an article linked from the submission: > There was some talk of enabling tail call optimization by default around the time that Ruby 2.0 was released, however this hasn't come to be for a number of reasons: Primary concerns were that tail call optimization makes it difficult to implement set_trace_func and also causes backtrace weirdness due to…
Comment linking /tail-call-optimization-in-ruby-background/
on “Low-poly image generation using evolutionary algorithms in Ruby (2023)”Submitted Introducing the tco_method gem as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIt's just OS X being slow, Linux gets close to peak with a 16 kB buffer: http://blog.tdg5.com/tuning-dd-block-size/
Comment linking /tuning-dd-block-size/
on “Mkfile(8) is severely syscall limited on OS X”
