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p4checo

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks!
Yeah I also thought it should be something like Safari preloading pages.

Still, why must the page preload happen during an update?

There's plenty of time for that after the update..

Re:Ask HN: What are some alternatives to HN? on Friday February 21, 2014 @06:47AM (#7276487)
I would really appreciate an invite! Thanks

EDIT: p4checo [at] gmail.com

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I have recently made a port to C++11 using std::atomic of a triple buffer to be used as a concurrency sync mechanism. The idea behind this thread sync approach is that for a producer-consumer situation where you have a producer that is running faster that the consumer, triple buffering can give some benefits since the producer thread won't be "slowed" down by having to wait for the consumer. In...

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