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Gist of the Day: Re-Inventing Hashes… In Perl.

2013-09-12

Before you begin the well-deserved flaming, please understand that I do not intend on submitting this to CPAN. This is purely an academic exercise to demonstrate…

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Gist of the Day: Process Control with fork(), exec(), and kill()

2013-09-11

I feel really bad for leaving you all high and dry yesterday… really bad… okay, you’re right, I don’t really feel all that bad. I…

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Gist of the Day: Ends in Four

2013-09-07

Sometimes we have a simple task to do and we over-think it. Such was the case when someone asked me an interview question one time.…

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Gist of the Day: Analyzing Performance with Benchmark.pm

2013-09-06

In my post on Inline::C a few days ago I mentioned The Rules of Optimization Club, and then I ranted a little bit about how if you…

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Gist of the Day: Some convenience macros for use with Perl C internals

2013-09-05

I feel awful. Like, really awful. The baby is sick, my partner is sick, I am sick. You still want something neat though, so I’m…

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Gist of the Day: Inline::C in Perl

2013-09-04

I like Perl and I like C (most of the time), and sometimes I like to mix the two. The two main reasons I might…