bmabey

; inspired from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3906831/how-do-i-generate-memoized-recursive-functions-in-clojure
(defmacro memoize-fn
  "Produces a memoized anonymous function that can recursively call itself."
  [fn-name & fn-args]
  `(with-local-vars
      [~fn-name (memoize
                (fn ~@fn-args))]
     (.bindRoot ~fn-name @~fn-name)
    @~fn-name))

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

whippersnapper

function setjdk() {
  if [ $# -ne 0 ]; then
   removeFromPath '/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home/bin'
   if [ -n "${JAVA_HOME+x}" ]; then
    removeFromPath $JAVA_HOME
   fi
   export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v $@`
   export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
  fi
 }