Ivan Toshkov wrote:
>
> Besides, when I read the description of orbiz, I was with the
> impression, that they prealocated the memory for just that reason: to
> remove the need for garbage collection.
An why would anyone do something this gross to optimize something
that is *not* a real bottleneck? Think when you read. The fact is,
they still had close their whole web site for maintenance every
once in a while (I never said if it was a supercomputer cluser or
a DOS machine) I added "AFAIK" qualifier because it *may*
be an old and already resolved issue.
Edi Weitz and Joe Marshall, you may stop kissing ass now. You
need brains to work for ITA, not lips.
·······@ziplip.com writes:
> Ivan Toshkov wrote:
>
>>
>> Besides, when I read the description of orbiz, I was with the
>> impression, that they prealocated the memory for just that reason: to
>> remove the need for garbage collection.
>
> An why would anyone do something this gross to optimize something
> that is *not* a real bottleneck? Think when you read. The fact is,
> they still had close their whole web site for maintenance every
> once in a while (I never said if it was a supercomputer cluser or
> a DOS machine) I added "AFAIK" qualifier because it *may*
> be an old and already resolved issue.
>
> Edi Weitz and Joe Marshall, you may stop kissing ass now. You
> need brains to work for ITA, not lips.
I'm well aware of the necessary qualifications for working at ITA.
I worked there. Any shutdown at Orbitz was (and is) unrelated to
garbage collection.
·······@ziplip.com wrote:
> Ivan Toshkov wrote:
>
>
>>Besides, when I read the description of orbiz, I was with the
>>impression, that they prealocated the memory for just that reason: to
>>remove the need for garbage collection.
>
>
> An why would anyone do something this gross to optimize something
> that is *not* a real bottleneck?
How do you know?
> Think when you read. The fact is,
I do.
> they still had close their whole web site for maintenance every
> once in a while (I never said if it was a supercomputer cluser or
> a DOS machine) I added "AFAIK" qualifier because it *may*
> be an old and already resolved issue.
Read again the article, if you need to:
http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html . Especially points 4 and 9 for
memory usage desciption and point 5 for the infrastructure.
--
Ivan Toshkov
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>>>>> "mike420" == mike420 <·······@ziplip.com> writes:
mike420> You need brains to work for ITA, not lips.
That not is not entirely true, you do need to know some lisp.
:-)
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