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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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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 7th October 2007.

benchmarks 14 effbot 4 fredrik-lundh 7 mmap 1 multicore 2 python 1,291 tim-bray 55

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