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7th October 2007 - Link Blog

Some Notes on Tim Bray's Wide Finder Benchmark. Fredrik Lundh demonstrates some Python ninja techniques for parsing log files using multiple cores (and eventually memory mapping).

Posted 7th October 2007 at 1:06 am

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