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The main disadvantage to TMI’s system wasn’t just performance, but that if you overused them, you’d lose out on the chance to act when things were changed. Consider the typical...

Personally, I'd suggest a couple of runtime options to adjust how much RAM is set aside for such a cache, and the maximum size object to allow in the cache....

For screenshots or other non-pasteable text, there’s a nice bing translate app for android phones that will do OCR on the image and overlay the translation. Seems to work pretty...

What I would suggest is to look at how DGD handles compilation under both UNIX and Windows. They use a native Visual Studio environment and just have the minimal code...

It probably assumes the usual default for DBI layers on transactional databases... that is that the DB has been put in auto-commit mode. In such a mode, the DBI layer...

A better option is to set up a logging system that defines either levels or categories of warnings/errors and emits them in a distinct pattern, or to distinct sources. For...

Just in case anyone still wants to use real C, here’s a wrapper I wrote a bit ago to handle appending things to strings via sprint… https://github.com/quixadhal/wileymud/blob/master/src/utils.c#L1501 Be careful out...

The old malloc replacements (smalloc, wrappedmalloc, etc) used to track total memory used by all kinds of things (strings, objects, domains, living things… depending on what was managed by the...

This is one of those annoying cases where LPC's quasi-types will break compatibility if you fix this. :) FluffOS had the annoying habit of initializing ALL variables to 0, regardless...

I was referring to the fact that there's no equivalent "undef" in LPC itself, not that it isn't used by the driver internally. In LPC, there is no way to...