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About the APR’s Memory pools which seem to cause memory leaks

Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Portable_Runtime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_pool http://dev.ariel-networks.com/apr/apr-tutorial/html/apr-tutorial-3.html http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch08s05.html The APR pools are some big tables which contain references to consecutive memory areas which are used by the application. Once the application releases such an area, the pool marks the memory area as available, but it doesn’t give it back to the OS. Let’s take an example which better […]

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mustaca.ro is finally alive

I own mustaca.ro since a couple of years now… maybe 6 years ? However, I didn’t use it so far because I couldn’t register a DNS record for it. Now, with the help of my friends I was able to redirect it to mustaca.de Also the emails sent to mustaca.ro are redirected to mustaca.de

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P vs NP

Read here the entire article on DDJ.com: http://www.ddj.com/architect/221600058 I love this remark: “NP-completeness “tells you something very specific:It tells you that if you’re going to look for an algorithm that’s going to work in every case and give you the best solution, you’re doomed: don’t even try. That’s useful information.”