Jarred Sumner, the main author of the Bun JavaScript engine, commented a few days ago on X that opening many files on macOS could be slow due to thread contention: “your $5,000 computer is only capable of opening 1 file at a time”. I was curious and I decided to test it out. I wrote … Continue reading How fast can you open 1000 files?| Daniel Lemire's blog
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Read this blog post if you are a JavaScript programmer and want to get a rough idea of what using TypeScript is like (think first step before learning more details). You’ll get answers to the following questions: How is TypeScript code different from JavaScript code? How is TypeScript code run? How does TypeScript help during editing in an IDE? Etc. Note: This blog post does not explain why TypeScript is useful. If you want to know more about that, you can read my TypeScript sales pitch.| 2ality.com
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