Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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Ollie left rather early in the morning.
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Up, to work, poked at mail, and got stuck into trying to work
out why an incremental make in writer does 700k stat system calls.
After some digging, it turns out
glob is the culprit,
always statting, knocked up a near doubling of performance there in
twenty lines or so, still more to go I'm sure, but parsing 50Mb of
dependencies (just for writer) is going to take at least -some-
time I suspect.
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Chewed through the rest of the mail queue. Preload staff
meeting; got stuck into Linux snapshot builds, and re-wrote the
nightmare of ninja shell that was autogen.sh. Then dug into making
relocate cope with the new gnumake deps.
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Bed early, feeling awful - the next round in the cycle of
coughs & chest infections no doubt.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
