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Hashtable performance metric 13 22 (10/26/2008 1:50:31 PM) comp.programming A problem that has been on my mind for a long time: how to express the performance of a hashtable, preferably in one number. Currently I seem to prefer the "number of hops" needed to access all elements (I ... Moi

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Using a mutex within the data structure that I want to protect 18 50 (4/15/2010 8:34:12 PM) comp.unix.programmer I have some data structures that I want to protect using a mutex for the purpose of making thread safe code. Is it ok, to include the mutex datatype within the data structure that I wish to protect? For exampl... markhobley550 (897)

Suppressing Unwanted Output to stdout And/Or stderr 7 44 (4/29/2010 3:02:28 PM) comp.unix.programmer I've been provided with a library where a debugging statement was left in so that it emits a single debugging line to stdout or stderr when a certain function is called. I'm not able at this time to get a re... datesfat.chicks (103)

poll and if 12 81 (5/2/2010 4:53:04 PM) comp.unix.programmer #include "main.h" #include static struct pollfd po[1]; static struct addrinfo ad, *p; static int sock, con; static char buf[1024] = "hello world"; int client(char *ip, char *port) { ad.ai_family = PF_INE... nospam116 (1187)

Overhead of Disk Read and write , Input/ output , etc 3 27 (5/3/2010 8:18:35 AM) comp.programming Hello all , For this problem i did a lot of searching but didn't get much.... I wanted to know on modern machines ( PC's i mean say X86 one) what is the average number of machine cycles required to read/write... mohangupta13 (109)

quick way to delete files 7 21 (5/15/2010 10:56:27 PM) comp.programming Does anyone know of a quick way I can delete files from a list? I untarball'd my gcc and directed stdout to a list. Can I make a few changes in bash, C, or perl to erase the files listed? Bill ... nospam116 (1187)

String comparisons (Billions) 3 27 (5/16/2010 5:36:29 PM) comp.unix.programmer First let me say that I am not a computer science student. So I am not trying to get help with my homework. I am an IT professional who supports unix, linux and some windows. Mostly on the enterprise server ... mcteague409 (1)

Why linking? 18 38 (5/19/2010 8:18:59 PM) comp.unix.programmer In a program I include the file zlib.h. When I include that file I suddenly needs to specify a library file which it should "link against". Why does some .h files need a library file and what does it mean tha... carl

Handling partial recv()s 34 91 (6/30/2010 10:48:45 AM) comp.unix.programmer I searched the archives a lot here and found zero solutions to my problem. There is a lot of discussion on this subject and almost 99% of it focuses on "You already know what the length of incoming data is". ... sunrise2 (598)

gcc & glibc 20 40 (7/6/2010 12:59:04 PM) comp.unix.programmer Hi All, I am a bit confused about one thing: at what degree a C compiler is indipendent from the operating system it is running on? I mean, for example, the time_t type is implemented in gcc or in glibc? gcc c... vincenzo.mercuri (12)

Are mmap and malloc amicable? 13 56 (8/14/2010 9:38:01 AM) comp.unix.programmer Hopefully, a quick question: Can I safely combine the use of malloc/realloc/free with mmap in the same program? Or, more precisely, if I mmap an anonymous map, and accumulate data in increasing addresses, am I ... mijoryx (954)