actually it's quite interesting.
I 'specially liked the code and benchmarks.. it's interesting to see how
'real' programmers do it. (that didn't come out right...)
Paul Farber
Farber Technology
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, James Park wrote:
> this is a public e-mail forum.
>
> maybe you guys should take your private war private.
>
> peace, gentlemen.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Len Budney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 11:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Safecat challenge
>
>
> Just for fun, why not put your money where your mouth is? I'll give
> you $250 if you can write a program which 1) Exactly conforms to the
> maildir protocol (including fsync()), and 2) runs 50 times faster than
> safecat, in an independent benchmark using actual emails, and 3) runs
> at least 20 times faster on a Linux machine with an ext2 filesystem
> mounted async, like mine. Since this is such a lock for you, you can
> dictate terms: what will you pay me after you fail?
>
> Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Considering your utterly inept approach to profiling, it certainly
> > > appears you don't do it that often.
> >
> > Correct, professor. I prefer to write efficient code right from the
> > start. What a novel concept!
>
> The prosecution rests, your honor. We've heard from Dijkstra, Knuth,
> and other expert witnesses. The defendent has confessed to the crime
> of total boobery.
>
> > > I'll repeat, for the last time: safecat, on my system at least, runs
> > > within a factor of two of /bin/cat.
> >
> > And on other systems, it benchmarks at 1/50th the speed of
> > efficiently-written code.
>
> 1. You benchmarked safecat? You saw somebody else's benchmarks? No. So
> shut up.
>
> 2. I said ``/bin/cat''. You said, ``efficiently written code'', by which
> you meant ``something I'm imagining right now in my head, which isn't
> safecat, which I've never profiled. There's a profiler in my head!''
>
> Beep! Thanks for playing; take your booby prize at the door. (I'm done
> abusing the list with this off-topic thread.)
>
> Len.
>
> PS A speedup of 2 is nothing to sneeze at. It's closer to 3 on an unloaded
> system; again nothing to sneeze at. I'll be rewriting safecat Real Soon
> Now.
>
>
