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john_kerl

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About john_kerl

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    Comment #35183396

    And https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1131

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    Comment #35182821

    See also https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/1119

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    Comment #35182810

    It's indeed written in Go now, which indeed has GC, and ultimately all memory is freed ... but there are indeed some issues around intermediate retention of memory, taking more mem…

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    Comment #29656988

    Also re 'hopefully the distros will keep up' -- some do some don't. I hope the C-to-Go issue isn't too much of a speedbump but we should know a couple distros in. The other day I r…

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    Comment #29656941

    Indeed -- in Go technically it's "concurrency" not "parallelism" (something the Go folks are careful to articulate) but with multiple processors available, in effect you get multic…

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    Comment #29653893

    See also https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new-in-miller-6/

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    Comment #29653780

    Agreed; I've never really liked C compiles, and the Go build process is dreamy. Another win (besides more features, and recent performance improvements) -- the Windows version is n…

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    Agreed, very much a user tool -- once it's released most people will get it via brew/yum/apt/conda/chocolatey and compile time will not be relevant for most folks. Miller has alway…

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    Comment #29653642

    Thanks -- my apologies for the sequencing of the dev work. I focused first on the port per se; second on feature-adds; leaving benchmarking, performance analysis, and optimizations…