Re: [perf-discuss] File events notification mechansim

2006-05-11 Thread Eoin Lawless
n entire filesystem > is for indexing like what Spotlight does, then this should > be provided as system service and have API's for applications to > interact with this service, rather then different applications trying > to duplicate it. > > -Prakash. > > Eoin Law

Re: [perf-discuss] File events notification mechansim

2006-05-08 Thread Eoin Lawless
As far as I know, Beagle is similar to Spotlight rather than the other way round - it tries to copy Spotlight. It was very far behind Spotlight when I last tried it. A good article on file system events, indexing and search in Apple's MacosX 10.4 Tiger is at: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/m

Re: [perf-discuss] HPC Challenge Benchmark

2006-04-06 Thread Eoin Lawless
Louwtjie Burger wrote: Hi there. Not completely applicable to current matters, but does anyone here have any experience in this specific benchmark(s). Particularly (not starting anything here) finding a suitable OS / Compiler combo. This might probably be a Linux (some distro) versus Solaris