Sahonon's comments

Sahonon | 6 years ago | on: When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques

Dumb question, but wouldn't memory mapping or lazy/streaming processing (e.g. SAX for parsing large XML documents, Java Streams for handling large amounts of "things", memory mapped files for anything you don't need intermediate representations for) resolve this problem as well?

Sahonon | 10 years ago | on: Two out of three developers are self-taught, and other trends from a survey

A purely selfish request, I know, but may I ask why? :)

Sahonon | 10 years ago | on: “I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from peak to decline”

Sorry to have been unclear -- thank you for making the effort to read my measly comment, however!

It does appear similar to the idea of abusing tuples, insofar as having to keep the meanings of each element in mind without any help from the syntax. shrugs I guess my nervousness around Internet commenting surfaces as excessively formal language. Apologies again for any future confusion :|

Sahonon | 10 years ago | on: “I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from peak to decline”

To counter your anecdote with some more anecdote, I just switched from Chrome to Firefox and have felt that the latter has some serious performance advantages over the former.