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The Scheherazade release - 1001 nights of coding

Damien Sandras has released the Version 3.0 of his Ekiga software phone.

This is a major release, most of the code has been rewritten. Many changes are not visible because they are in internal code. See the feature list (major new features are in bold-italic font):
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m00!

Due to a new toy we got at work, I was searching how to massively speed up BZIP2 processing on GNU/Linux systems. It sucks when you have 16 cores but only one process/thread.

I finally found PBZIP2, which basically is just a new controll wrapper around the underlying library (the code has around 60 Kilobytes - with comments and all). It builds in about the half of a second.

Just to imagine a bit:

Test file was a 5.6 Gigabyte file with random binary data (/dev/urandom). A normal BZIP2 took 30 Minutes to finish, a parallelized PBZIP2 made the same in 3 Minutes and 30 seconds.

In case you need to speedup BZIP2 processing on your SMP-servers, consider to use PBZIP2 - it rocks!

Hi there,

someone in chat just called me a CCC.

A CCC is a simple machine that takes input in the form of coffee and produces output in the form of (C) code. Means, a CCC is a Coffee to Code Converter (also: Coffee to C Converter).

What a world - what was your today’s nickname?