Reimplementing a Solaris command in Python – 17x faster than C (opens in new tab)

(blogs.oracle.com)

1 pointsszemet6y ago1 comments

1 comments

1 comments · 1 top-level

TLDR: using a linked list with a record for each user worked fine decades ago, but doesn’t cut it on systems with over 100,000 users.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse