Re^2: Multiple write locking for BerkeleyDB

I managed sustained throughput rates of close to 600k/minute on a single core 2.6 MHz machine

Um, that's like one update every 260 clock cycles - truly impressive!

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Re^3: Multiple write locking for BerkeleyDB by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 24, 2008 at 16:36 UTC
one update every 260 clock cycles - truly impressive! And that would have to include an average of at least 3 context switches in that brief time. I wish :) Units corrected. Thanks. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]

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Re^3: Multiple write locking for BerkeleyDB
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 24, 2008 at 16:36 UTC

one update every 260 clock cycles - truly impressive!

And that would have to include an average of at least 3 context switches in that brief time. I wish :)

Units corrected. Thanks.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.