August 2011
2 posts
Java: Performance of threads handling many objects
So, at work, a portion of a program that I am working on has to perform some cleaning procedures on just over 200,000 records. Cleaning each record iteratively was taking way too long, so I decided to use some of my parallelization skills from last summer to see if I could decrease the run time on the cleaning portion. I decided to use 4 threads to ease the work on our poor processor. Here are...
MySQL migration: Windows > Ubuntu
So, at work, I’ve been trying to migrate all my existing work, projects, services, etc.. from a Windows Server 2008 machine to a fresh install of Natty Ubuntu. Developing on windows, even with cygwin was getting to be too much of a hassle for me.
However, when I went to migrate the MySQL database, I ran into a minor difficulty that took me nearly a full afternoon to figure out.
I started...