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symisc_devel··on Shown HN: Online Markdown Code Editor
A small bug issue with firefox which is fixed now
symisc_devel··on WhiteDB – Lightweight NoSQL database written in C, operating in main memory
The project seems to be a fork of the more mature UnQLite project (http://unqlite.org) except that UnQLite support pluggable run-time interchangeable storage engines (B+Tree, LH, R+Tree) and has support for on-disk databases as well in-memory operations.
symisc_devel··on UTF-8 – "The most elegant hack"
Note that the UTF-8 encoding mechanism has inspired the variable length integers encoding (http://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/varint.wiki) introduced by the SQLite author (DRH) which I hope will be popular among programmers.
symisc_devel··on GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 released
Absolutely, TempleOS is an amazing piece of work including its programming language (Holy C).
symisc_devel··on What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (2011)
zPtr = malloc(128);

if( zPtr == 0 ){

/*

  *If the system is so sick that we are unable

  * to allocate a tiny chunk of memory, there

  * is no much we can do here, kill this bitch

  */

  exit(-1); //Seriously?

}
symisc_devel··on UnQLite - An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine
Yep, sorry for the delay, We're quite busy.

I think this post will clarify the license issues http://unqlite.org/forum/note-on-the-licensing-situation

symisc_devel··on UnQLite - An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine
OK, actually I've emailed D. Richard Hipp a few months ago asking for permission to use the name UnQLite in a future open source project, here is a copy of Hipp's reply:

It would be good if you can make it clear on your website, somehow, that yours is an unaffiliated project. Otherwise, people might go complaining to me when they find bugs in your code. (Don't laugh - that sort of thing happens a lot.)

Other than that, you are welcomed to use the name.

You might want to have a look at the LSM storage engine that Dan Kennedy is working on for SQLite4. It is faster than the clunky and dated B-Tree used by SQLite3. It is also faster than LevelDB. And it supports nested transactions, with rollback. And concurrency. And it is more NAND-flash friendly. See http://www.sqlite.org/src4/timeline for the latest code.

symisc_devel··on UnQLite - An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine
From UnQLite core developer: No, Jx9 (the standalone library) is under SPL, while UnQLite is 2-clause BSD (including the Jx9 core), so there is no worry about that since the two software are developed by the same company. In other words, use UnQLite without restrictions
symisc_devel··on SQLite Now Faster With Memory Mapped I/O
UnQLite (http://unqlite.org) is still faster than SQLite
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