I was taking a look at google analytics today, and decided to take a look at the browser percentages. I was a little surprised when I saw the results; 60.1% Firefox, 13.9% Safari, 7.9% Mozilla, 5.9% Opera, 5.5% Chrome, and 2.9% Internet Explorer, since the beginning of the year. The sort of crowd that read my blog I'd expect to be using Firefox, but maybe not such a high percentage. Pretty pleased that Safari is in second, and not totally sure what Mozilla is, but probably just the other mozilla based browsers like IceWeasel. Also a little surprised with the...
March 2009 Archives
Yesterday, I submitted my first program modification to the computer language shootout game, which is a change to the thread-ring program. If you've followed the shootout at all, you will probably know that haskell dominates at this benchmark, with the next contender (Mozart/OZ) being 50% slower than haskell already. While i was having a look at the code, I noticed that the haskell entry was forkIO'ing a lot of threads, which is exactly what we want. But we weren't quite forking enough; one of the 503 threads was the main thread. Bad idea! I learnt a few weeks ago, while...
