Saturday, January 26, 2002

Intel moves forward on Itanium backup. The company is reportedly working on a long-rumored project to develop an emergency backup plan for the high-end server market in the event its Itanium chip fails. [CNET News.com] 2:10:46 AM

I should have gone to bed ages ago. But I'm having too much fun with Radio at the moment. By a quirk of coincidence it was another type of radio that kept me awake into the early hours of the morning when I was a teenager - Radio Luxembourg 2:02:18 AM

Just paid for Radio Userland! Well worth the $40! Should have asked about an educational discount ;-) Interestingly enough the download off the secure server page refres to Radio Userland 8.1! Perhaps that's a typo - a combo of 7.1 and 8.0? 1:57:10 AM

system.verbs.builtins.radio.html.viewNewsItems changed on Fri, 25 Jan 2002 03:07:47 GMT: Tweak for performance. Uncached news page went from approx 220 ticks to approx 40 ticks. Thanks to Duncan Smeed for the trick to get add () to be so much faster. We'll surely use this in other places. [Radio.root Updates] 1:30:42 AM

system.verbs.builtins.radio.html.viewNewsItems changed on Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:40:59 GMT: Another optimization for the News Aggregator page. In the local "add" procedure, we parenthesize the text we're adding to htmltext, this triggers an ancient optimization in the kernel that doesn't do any handle copying on string assignments of the form x = x + s. Before parenthesizing average time was 104 ticks, after -- 45! More than double the speed. Worth doing. [Radio.root Updates] 1:28:58 AM

system.verbs.builtins.radio.macros.weblogRecentPosts changed on Fri, 25 Jan 2002 22:33:07 GMT: Applied the same optimization to add() that was applied to radio.html.viewNewsItems. Before, this script took 84 ticks. After this change, it takes 29 ticks -- more than twice as fast. [Radio.root Updates] 1:27:57 AM

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