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It is lz4. While all that you say about disk being slow makes sense, measurements show that in this specific situation disabling compression improves performance by a little. My ha…

> Couldn’t you amortize this to 0 by just caching the result and only changing it if the binary timestamp changed? Yes, that would be nice, but the tricky question is can any of th…

[build2 author here] Thanks for the feedback! Some additional details: > The first one is a criticism of CMake, not Ninja (?), so I don't think it can be why. Fair enough. The poin…

At least you know it was written by a fallible human. But if you point out my mistake, I will be happy to fix it.

I don't know, someone who solves their borrow checker errors by adding more dynamic allocations (which seems to be common/recommended), will be taught how to program in Java, not C…

> Commands in a CLI … I think what makes for good product design is having a very small number of primitives. Small but not too small. Case in point: shell scripts (POSIX shell, ba…

GCC (libstdc++) as all other major C++ runtimes (libc++, MSVC) implements the small object optimization for std::function where a small enough callable is stored directly in std::f…

The strangest thing about Flow is that its compiler is implemented in C#. So if you decide to use it in your C++ codebase, you now have a C#/.Net dependency, at least at build time…

I believe the point is if something is UB, like NULL pointer dereference, then the compiler can assume it can't happen and eliminate some other code paths based on that. And that, …

What is the filesystem story in OpenBSD? Anything CoW/snapshot'able on the horizon?

What would be the SQLite's equivalent to indexing starting from 1, not 0? Off the top of my head I can't think of anything that would go so much against the grain.

> We have been optimized very hard by evolution to be good at running, so there shouldn’t be any “easy” technologies that would make us dramatically faster or more efficient. I won…

There is a parallel with database transactions: it's great if you can do everything in a single database/transaction (atomic monorepo commit). But that only scales so far (on both …

Yes, I've seen this one in our logs. Quite obnoxious, but at least it identifies itself as a bot and, at least in our case (cgit host), does not generate much traffic. The bulk of …

The main reason you would attach a database and then jump through hoops like qualifying tables is to have transactions cover all the attached databases. If you don't need that, the…

I would say there is no certainty with eventual consistency, only hope.

> And because Electric syncs every change granularly, you are certain that the state of your local database is exactly the same as the server's. I don't see how this certainty foll…

> It also has 6 seconds of inactivity before starting any useful work. For comparison, ninja takes 0.4 seconds to start compiling the 2,468,083 line llvm project. Ninja is not a 10…

> Header units are supposed to partially address this but right now they are not supported in any build systems properly (except perhaps msbuild?). They are supported in build2 whe…

> In other words, hypothetical improvements by AWS (and other Clouds) are extremely overrated. Interesting, in a recent thread (I think it was about Redis going back open source) a…

I watched that but I don't see it as convincing. Let's take the AWS example brought up in the talk. The "compete on the interface, not (open source) implementation" idea I think mi…

In our package repository web interface we aimed for high information density over design fluff: https://cppget.org Especially our builds page.

In GCC 14, C++ modules were unusable (incomplete, full of bugs, no std modules, etc). I haven't tried 15 yet but if that changed, then it definitely qualifies for a "great improvem…

Thanks for sharing. If I understood correctly, you have rate-limiter specific urls (those with commit ids) that are infrequently requested by users but frequently by bots. Which me…

> How do they know that these are LLM crawlers and not anything else? I can tell you what it looks like in case of a git web interface like cgit: you get a burst of one or two isol…