November 2011
7 posts
Small Business 401k →
I need to set-up a new 401k for my new consulting job. Looking into going through Vanguard directly. E-mail me if you have better suggestions.
[Sermon] Wise Thinking →
I am currently reading Eat This Book by Eugene Peterson. My coworker Matt Moran mentioned he has been listening and reading Jeff Vanderstildt’s stuff lately, and I have never heard of Jeff. Matt gave me this link to check out.
Gospel Fluent Thinking →
I am currently reading Eat This Book by Eugene Peterson. My coworker Matt Moran mentioned he has been listening and reading Jeff Vanderstildt’s stuff lately, and I have never heard of Jeff. Matt gave me this link to check out.
A Note on F# Quotations →
The author, Yin Zhu, works on the F# Optimization Domain Specific Language.
[Survey] Truthy Maintenance by David McAllester →
Usenix 08: Optimizing TCP Receive Performance →
The performance of receive side TCP processing has traditionally been dominated by the cost of the ‘per-byte’ operations, such as data copying and checksumming. We show that architectural trends in modern processors, in particular aggressive prefetching, have resulted in a fun- damental shift in the relative overheads of per-byte and per-packet operations in TCP receive processing, making...
Nagle’s Algorithm is Not Friendly towards Small... →
Title is a bit of flame bait. The author’s real point is that it is not friendly toward small requests if the receiver is using Delayed ACKs.