[lucy-dev] Book Club notes 2013-02-05

[Marvin Humphrey]

Greets,

Miscellaneous notes following up the meeting of the Apache Lucy Book Club
on February 5, 2013...

Ulrich Drepper's paper on shared libaries:

    Ulrich Drepper
    How To Write Shared Libraries
    http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf

The "category killer" book on information theory, available from Amazon for
four bux as either paperback or Kindle:

    John R. Pierce
    An Introduction to Information Theory
    Symbols, Signals and Noise
    
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-Theory-Symbols-Signals/dp/0486240614

The thread on general@hadoop.a.o where Doug Cutting proposed Avro:

    http://markmail.org/message/7cgrwoc4er4mr3bp

Lucy's STATUS document describing TODO items, badly in need of updating:

    
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=lucy.git;a=blob_plain;f=STATUS;hb=HEAD

I've been working out how to have Clownfish objects extend Perl SVs on the wiki:

    http://wiki.apache.org/lucy/MarvinScratch

    struct cfish_Obj {
        void *sv_any;
        U32   sv_refcnt;
        U32   sv_flags;
        union { void *ptr; IV iv; } sv_union;
        cfish_VTable *vtable;
    };

Marvin Humphrey