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    32-bit integer overflows

    Not again!


    #2
    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Not again!

    You are sooooooo cool
    "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


    Thomas Jefferson

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      #3
      Originally posted by AtW View Post
      Numeric overflows.
      Tut, tut. Schoolboy error. Crap programming in a crap language.

      There's no other excuse.

      You've an I/O bound system, not processor bound. Code more defensively, and less for speed. And in future, do proper analysis before making assumptions.


      HTH
      My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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        #4
        Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
        Tut, tut. Schoolboy error. Crap programming in a crap language.

        There's no other excuse.

        You've an I/O bound system, not processor bound. Code more defensively, and less for speed. And in future, do proper analysis before making assumptions.


        HTH


        Did not expect (2 years ago when it was coded) that we'd have URLs with more than 2 billion backlinks in our index - we've got 12 now out of a trillion+

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          #5
          Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
          You've an I/O bound system, not processor bound.
          We CPU bound at the moment actually. Not for long - you'll have to wait for relevant SKA News in due course to know more

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            #6
            Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
            Code more defensively
            Fail fast.

            A defensive coding option always bottles up the problems.

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              #7
              Originally posted by AtW View Post
              Did not expect (2 years ago when it was coded) that we'd have URLs with more than 2 billion backlinks in our index - we've got 12 now out of a trillion+
              Aha! There's your problem. Americanisms.

              You know I have been banging on about your spelling of "centre" all week? Well, now you've gone and fallen over because you've used nasty American billions.

              If you'd been using proper British billions, you'd be able to handle loads more backlinks.


              Hang on, 2 thousand million? Not 4 thousand million? You're not using signed integers, are you? Do many URLs have a negative number of backlinks?
              My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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                #8
                Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
                Hang on, 2 thousand million? Not 4 thousand million? You're not using signed integers, are you? Do many URLs have a negative number of backlinks?

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by AtW View Post


                  Gotta respect ya, sitting there giving it on a Sunday. When you're rich, nobody will be able to say you didn't earn it.

                  (Except those people who think you need to get an email confirmation of permission from every webmaster on the planet... )
                  My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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                    #10
                    ta mate.

                    Some more work to workaround the bug and then drinks later - well earned today for sure

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