I wrote about my discoveries with false optimisation yesterday in the context of a fast, low-memory character encoding detector I’d written. I promised to release the code soon, and I’ve now done so.
I’ve written a little about the program on reevoolabs, or you can get the code directly from GitHub in my detenc project.
2009-01-08 18:10 UTC. Comments: 2.
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Paul Maunders
Wrote at 2009-01-13 20:50 UTC using Firefox 3.0.5 on Linux:
I notice you are using Git and Github now, how are you finding the change from subversion / Google Code?Paul Battley
Wrote at 2009-01-13 23:08 UTC using Firefox 3.0.5 on Linux:
I’m still using Subversion at work and for most of my personal stuff, and I don’t really have any unsolved problems there.I am increasingly interested in the kind of open development models that GitHub is facilitating, and I think that git does work really well for the common situation where you want to build on top of an existing project. I love the new ‘fork queue’ (yes, I see what they did there) feature, in particular—although I assumed that it must already exist, and was surprised that it didn’t.
However, the reason I put this on GitHub is that I’d originally committed it to our private work repository and wanted somewhere public to make it available. Creating a new project on GitHub is a path of very low resistance compared to most hosting options.