e — New Release of Extract Any Archive
Extract Any Archive just got better: When you extract multiple archives at once, e.g. with
e *.rar
and some files are not extractable, e continuous to extract the other files and prints an error message with all the failed files when it has finished. More info and download of e is here.
Exponential Functions: Benchmarks, 8 Times Faster Math.pow()
I have updated the code for the Math.pow() approximation, now it is 11 times faster on my Pentium IV. Read Optimized Exponential Functions for Java for more information. Now I can also give you some benchmarks:
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Optimized Exponential Functions for Java
Usually microoptimization is only done in C or C++, but it works quite well in Java too. For a project I needed very fast log() and exp() calculations, and Java’s Math.log() and Math.exp() just doesn’t cut it. After a bit of research I have found the following approximations that are good enough for me:
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Open Source Search Engine
Give it a try:
http://opensource.ankerl.com/
Thanks to Google’s new co-op feature I was able to create a customized search engine for open source software. It contains a lot of hosting sites like sourceforge.net and rubyforge.org, but also lots of other sites like eclipse.org, kernel.org, apache.org and many many more.