A few days ago I wrote about a few differences between using C and python to handle a process-based job management system. My discussion covered performance, development time, dependencies, and portability. I ended with the conclusion that despite C being vastly superior in performance, the relative difference in performance between …

I had an interesting discussion with my buddy Ali after he read my previous post, Python Multiprocessing Pool and KeyboardInterrupt Revisited. The discussion was around the question, “what are the benefits of using the python multiprocessing.Pool class over writing a simple process-based job management system in C?”

We started …

Recently I’ve done a lot of work requiring heavy computation on large datasets. While python is not a great choice for speed, it can be extended by modules written in C for those speed critical moments. For such moments I always try to find solutions written as C modules …

Using the methods I discussed previously I wrote a telnet-like client which can be used to communicate with any type of text based server such as mail and web servers. The following isn’t 100% perfect as it doesn’t handle early returns from send as I wasn’t able …

Two weeks ago I started a journey to read a textbook cover to cover so that I’ll be ready for the research I will be assisting with. Since I have yet to take a networking class I am a bit behind where I need to be, but that’s …