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The bright side
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The bright side is a personal blog at larjona.wordpress.com about programming and writing. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on the cost of Linux page fault handling. The one comment discusses kernel build times and disk caching, quoting Linus Torvalds, so the post is about Linux kernel performance.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I began this blog as part of my homework of Master of Libre Software at URJC. I finished my studies but I keep on writing about free (as in freedom) software, networks and knowledge.
What Hacker News says?
Linus wrote: 'Even a fully built kernel ("allmodconfig", so a pretty full build) takes about half a minute on my normal desktop to say "I'm done, that pull changed nothing I could compile".' Since it's just after a git operation all the file state should be warm in the disk cache. It really shouldn't take that long. The Linux kernel (at least by looking at [1]) is about the same size in terms of file count as Chromi…
Comment linking /2011/06/15/numbers-about-the-linux-kernel-2-6-38-2/
on “The cost of Linux's page fault handling”Submitted New Phone: Samsung Galaxy S III Phone with Replicant as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rankings, Condorcet and free software: Calculating Debian artwork vote results as a story · 1 points
HN discussion