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Counting to Ten on Linux

Posted on March 18, 2013 by brucedawson

I recently discovered a Linux shell script that was running slowly due to an inefficiently implemented loop. This innocent investigation ended up uncovering misleading information from time and a bad interaction between the Linux thread scheduler and its CPU power … Continue reading →

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