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I was just reading a well written article on some architectural flaws in Windows that are solved in OS X. In and of itself it’s an interesting topic and the points are made well. However, in the middle the author delves into a bit of commentary on the MS psychology that sits at the root [...]

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I’ve been profiling various aspects of jaRTI for a little while now. Today I was attempting to hunt down an apparent memory leak. As it turns out, the leak seems to be in Middlesim, not jaRTI itself. I had been using Middlesim so I could quickly whip up testing federates in minutes rather than hours. [...]

It is amazing what a single line can do.
socket.setTcpNoDelay( true );
Adding that after the creation of each socket in the brand new “jsop” binding for jaRTI yielded some amazing results when running it against a small federation I’ve been using for testing.
Before:

OS X (intel) - 6 seconds
OS X (ppc) - don’t even ask
Windows (intel) - [...]