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.

Click Add to Google to add it to your customized Google homepage