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.
>
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