Given the list and people having many levels of experience/age/etc its probably worth expounding on : I'm reminded about the old story of the McIlroy and Knuth word count programs.
https://franklinchen.com/blog/2011/12/08/revisiting-knuth-and-mcilroys-word-count-programs/ On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 6:28 PM Steven Stewart-Gallus <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm really confused. > > You're talking about putting the data into sqlite which suggests there really > isn't so much log data and it could be filtered with a hacky shell script. > But then you're talking about a lot of heavy optimisation which suggests you > really may need to put in custom effort. Precisely how much log data really > needs to be filtered? You're unlikely to be able to filter much of the data > faster than the system utilities which are often very old and well-optimised > C code. I'm reminded about the old story of the McIlroy and Knuth word count > programs. > > Anyway while this is a very enlightening discussion it is probably worthwhile > to reuse as much existing system utilities and code as you can instead of > writing your own. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mechanical-sympathy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Studying for the Turing test -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mechanical-sympathy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
