From: Justin Collins <collinsj@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T07:14:06+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C

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Ashley Moran wrote:
> On Thursday 27 July 2006 10:13, Ashley Moran wrote:
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>>> Good luck. I recently got a Ruby program that aggregates several LDAP
>>> directory-pulls with about a million entries down from a few hours to a
>>> few seconds, without having to drop into C. It can be done, and it's
>>> kindof fun too.
>>>       
>> Next time I get a morning free I might apply some of the tweaks that have
>> been suggested.  Might be interested to see how much  I can improve the
>> performance.
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> One curious thing is that while the real time was about 50 mins, the user time 
> was only about 30 mins (negligible sys time if I remember).  Not sure where 
> the other 20 mins has gone?
>
> Ashley
>   

Disk I/O? Maybe?

-Justin

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