My daily readings 03/06/2008

Postfix vs. qmail – Performance

tags: benchmark, performance, qmail

Mailman FAQ Entry

tags: performance, qmail

Linux Process Scheduler Improvements  Annotated

tags: Linux, performance, process

Linux 2.6.0 has made significant improvements in the processor scheduler
in the 2.6.0 release. Not only are processes scheduled more efficiently,
but the scheduler has been redesigned to be more scalable when the
number of processes in a machine are increased. In 2.4, the
scaling is not as prominent.

The hackbench test is a benchmark for measuring the performance, overhead, and
scalability of the Linux scheduler. Created by Rusty Russell, it uses client
and server processes grouped to send and receive data in order to simulate
the connections established for a chat room. Each client sends a message to
each server in the group.

MyOwnDB Blog » Blog Archive » Mass mailing with active mailer

tags: mail, mass, rails

Detect foreign language support using JavaScript

tags: identification, javascript, language

A composite approach to language/encoding detection

tags: detection, encoding, language

Universal Encoding Detector: character encoding auto-detection in Python

tags: detection, encoding

Podcast: The Potential Partnership of India and China — HBS Working Knowledge  Annotated

tags: no_tag

The world has an estimated population of 6.6 billion people. One-third of that total resides in just 2 nations: China (1.3 billion) and India (1.1 billion). On the strength

In his new book, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours, this idea of “mutualism” is an important theme as Khanna considers how China and India are reshaping each other, as well as their growing impact on business around the globe.

We asked Khanna to identify the signs of this emerging cooperation and where it might lead in the future. But

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Language Detection in Gmail

tags: detection, google, language

How language identification was used in Gmail

patfm’s bookmarks tagged with “language_identification” on del.icio.us

tags: detection, identification, language, recognition

How to detect which language a text is written in? Or when science meets human! « The Nameless One

tags: C, detection, implementation, language, recognition, ruby