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Memory and disk corruption definitely were a problem in the early days. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14206811 for example. I also recall an anecdote about how the searc…

> But what happens if there was a cosmic bit flip in a dynamic library? I think there were more basic reasons we didn't ship shared libraries to production. 1. They wouldn't have b…

You might want to measure yourself, because the table of results there doesn't make a lot of sense to me. 4-5 of those methods should be dominated by context switch latency and thu…

> On (1), all objects in Java are references, being a pointer to a pointer effectively. This indirection has a cost but has been incredibly useful historically because it enables m…

That seem abysmally slow for grep. On my machine, with a 1.1G file made of 1200 copies of /usr/share/dict/words, GNU grep 2.16 takes about 1.5 seconds. Try with LC_ALL=C?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8157392