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Comment · 11 years ago
> I don't see how this is any different from a regular server rack

well, the difference is that most rack cannot fit 10 TB of RAM and 140x5GHz cores: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/hardware/z13_specs.html

but surely those are super-expensive and I doubt all that effective when it comes to performance per watt. I'm actually a bit more excited about Power8 servers, but are there any non-IBM available yet?

Comment · 11 years ago
and when you need something between 1.25 and 1.5 available from UI, you can always do:

  document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = 1.35
Comment · 13 years ago
does it? It works for me: "Open Torrent", paste magnet link, click upload.
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
with html5 player:

  document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = 2
Comment · 13 years ago
well, there are memoryviews, but they could have been designed better
Comment · 13 years ago
just enable html5 player and you can choose 1.5 on youtube. Or, if it too fast (depending on the speaker), just do:

  document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = 1.3
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Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
That's why for apps like this (not for projects that I create with virtualenv) I much more prefer using OS package manager. Could it be any nicer than on Gentoo? ;]

  CDEPEND="dev-python/decorator
  	dev-python/pexpect
  	dev-python/pyparsing
  	dev-python/simplegeneric
  	virtual/python-argparse
  	emacs? ( app-emacs/python-mode virtual/emacs )
  	matplotlib? ( dev-python/matplotlib )
  	mongodb? ( dev-python/pymongo )
  	octave? ( dev-python/oct2py )
  	smp? ( dev-python/pyzmq )
  	wxwidgets? ( dev-python/wxpython )"
  RDEPEND="${CDEPEND}
  	notebook? ( >=www-servers/tornado-2.1
  			dev-python/pygments
  			dev-python/pyzmq )
  	qt4? ( || ( dev-python/PyQt4 dev-python/pyside )
  			dev-python/pygments
  			dev-python/pyzmq )"
  DEPEND="${CDEPEND}
  	test? ( dev-python/nose )"
Comment · 14 years ago
Well, probably I would have to bundle whole portage tree, so it would be ~1 GB big, but I'll give it a shot this weekend.
Comment · 14 years ago
Regarding non-synthetic benchmarks, quite recently I've tested pypy as a "backend" to Gentoo's package manager (portage). System was quite not up-to-date, lots of packages and dependencies, this is how much time did it take portage to figure out what to update:

  python2.7: 323.13s user 6.50s system 99% cpu 5:30.59 total 
  python3.2: 271.40s user 6.33s system 99% cpu 4:38.64 total 
  pypy1.9: 168.28s user 5.95s system 99% cpu 2:55.16 total

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