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Re:FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service by andai on Thursday January 01, 2026 @01:33AM (#46451838)
So... what's the progress exactly? Everything is bloated now and looks way less cool!
Re:FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service by array_key_first on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:30PM (#46490742)
Lots of this is more aggressive caching and pre-allocation. Also, most Linux apps, both gui and console, are C and C++. They're basically almost as fast as they can get.