Extracting small chunks of data from EXTREMELY LARGE files - say hello to memory mapped files
Memory mapped files are brilliant when you need to extract tiny bits of data from files that are much much larger than the total memory your system has.
Dennis Ritchie passes away.
Thank you dmr Sir for your numerous contributions. You will always be remembered. I wish I had gotten the chance to meet you in person.
A news link is here. His homepage at Bell labs.
A rather fitting comment from a reddit thread:
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Note to self: static member variable in C++
So you don't go banging your head around the next time you try to use a static variable in a class in C++ : http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2004/11/05/252685.aspx
Precise reason : http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2004/11/05/252685.aspx#2342841
CC++ support on VIM
I'm a regular vim user. Recently I came across the c-vim package which adds support to vim for C and C++. Most of you are already aware of this, for those who aren't here's a start.
You can get it here : http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=213 …