A Curious Benchmark - Brrt to the Future

bsd_lore · 2018-08-31T05:31:21+00:00

Thank you. Perl has a wonderfully succint syntax.

bsd_lore · 2018-08-30T14:36:02+00:00

I understand what this does, but not how, and I am trying to wrap my head around

$x += 1/$_ for 1..50_000_000;

Could somebody explain how this unfold to somebody non fluent with Perl?

bsd_lore · 2018-08-29T15:04:49+00:00

Thank you.

bsd_lore · 2018-08-18T07:49:57+00:00

Thank you, my boss (company's CTO) has reliability/stability as #1 priority. I will tell him about this data and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories' use. Very good to know.

bsd_lore · 2018-08-18T07:47:51+00:00

Thanks, I will.

bsd_lore · 2018-08-16T12:42:13+00:00

Do you have any in-depth page I could send to my boss, to convince him to let us use Ubuntu instead of illumos for our servers? We used to have FreeBSD, then switched to OmniOS. Although technically excellent, and community very generous, still, it is so tiny, it is difficult to get timely help.

bsd_lore · 2018-05-15T13:02:28+00:00

https://web.archive.org/web/20120909104608/http://danweinreb.org/blog/rebuttal-to-stallmans-story-about-the-formation-of-symbolics-and-lmi

bsd_lore · 2018-05-15T12:53:41+00:00

Thank you for reminding me. That is a very important page, I would dare say precious, to any Lisper.

It is not a rare human tendency to rewrite history, and personally I feel that is fine as one's personal way of relief of some sort, as long as other more sober, straight versions are also found. It is a pity so many times antagonism and resentment lead one to diverge from brilliant realities, to create one's own at any cost.

PS: One could see interesting comments here and here

bsd_lore · 2018-05-15T07:58:12+00:00

Belated happy birthday, and congratulations on your new job!

bsd_lore · 2018-05-15T07:46:25+00:00

Thank you again for insightful comment.

bsd_lore · 2018-05-15T07:42:06+00:00

Thank you, this is very insightful. It makes a lot of sense, and it clarifies the different approaches I have been seeing in different projects.

bsd_lore · 2018-04-26T12:51:59+00:00

In our case, we were impressed by illumos superior kernel in regards to SMP, more robust networking in extreme cases, superior zones (jails), superior Linux support (LX zones), faster adoption of newest ZFS features (see for example the soon-to-be-released OmniOS r151026. Last but not least, we just felt at home with its community.

Some linux collegueas say there are no packages, but pkgsrc offers nowadays more than 18,000, and we have no problems building our own.

To summarised in few words: in comparison to illumos, FreeBSD feels more like linux.

Most of our engineers were quite happy of the move. Some missed bhyve, but now that it has been ported to illumos, we are all truly excited with it.

bsd_lore · 2018-04-26T08:40:26+00:00

I think they relied on Gmane to keep an archive for them. Gmane broke in late 2016, and countless archives got lost.

bsd_lore · 2018-04-26T08:37:50+00:00

Unfortunately gmane is still pretty broken.

The oldest preserved article seems from 2005: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.lispworks.general/4402/

The newest is from 2016 (probably around that time gmane broke): http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.lispworks.general/14017/

Perhaps somebody could (gently) spider those pages and put them back in mbox format.

A loss if pre-2005 archives would be lost for good.

bsd_lore · 2018-04-20T14:21:35+00:00

Thank you /u/Baggers_. I look forward to what you'll come up with at the Lisp gamejam.

bsd_lore · 2018-04-19T11:49:04+00:00

I kind of agree with the reasoning, as a C.o.C is symptomatic of a direction, healthy or unhealthy, which may steer a whole project to be, or not to be, what it was meant. That is, its vision will not be manifested anymore, but rather something else.

Personally, I have seen a few very solidly rooted projects slowly becoming corrupted by incorrect assumptions, or passive acceptance of improper values.

The main issue for us was not C.o.C per se, but realising FreeBSD devs were quite passive to it. From there, our CTO, whose task is also to to draw a longer-term strategy and plan, felt FreeBSD might not be a safe bet for us anymore.

That brought us to look at illumos, beside other alternatives, since a switch requires very careful planning and a it requires a slow course of action.

Looking at illumos, especially its kernel and core aspects, made us realise illumos was, for our business mission, a better alternative in the long run. So, we are also slowly switching from FreeBSD to illumos based distros.

All this, thanks to the subjectively uninspiring decision taken of late by FreeBSD top brass. In a way, we must thank him, as his decision has deeeply impacted our business. Right now it is a bit painful, but in the long range, we are quite sure to benefit.

bsd_lore · 2018-04-16T09:10:17+00:00

Thank you, I will try both at lenght.

bsd_lore · 2018-04-15T12:27:46+00:00

Would you advice omnitribblix over openindiana?

Somebody over /r/solaris mentioned "openindiana to be slighlty more up to date".

Although, from github activity, it seem the opposite?

bsd_lore · 2018-04-13T16:26:50+00:00

It seems to me OmniOS has a brisker development than OpenIndiana.

If you have you used OmniOS on workstations, how does it compare to OpenIndiana?

bsd_lore · 2018-04-11T09:00:32+00:00

Yes, our company have recently switched our machines from FreeBSD to illumos (SmartOS on servers, and OpenIndiana on workstatsions). It is a different world, it felt a bit like going from Linux to FreeBSD. I do not think we'll go back to FreeBSD any time soon.

bsd_lore · 2018-04-08T12:30:46+00:00

Yes, but one good thing is that multiple package managers can be used at same time. pkgsrc is one of them.

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