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Monthly Archives:: July 2011
The great suffix culling
When I wrote about suffix handling in my log parser before, I made mention of a bit of a code problem that I had in the source: An explosion of LP*Suffix classes, amounting to nearly forty of the blasted things. Most of these were empty or nearly-empty classes that served the purpose of replicating the [...]
Data redundancy in the WoW combat log
I’ve been rewriting some of the my entry handling code today in an attempt to improve the speed and memory usage of the import code, which currently consumes approximately twice the input-text size in RAM, after parsing is complete. In doing so, I’ve seen that there are a lot of opportunities to reduce memory consumption [...]
Building a log parser, step 2.2: Anatomy of Prefixes and Suffixes
It’s been a while since I wrote about anything at all, during which time I’ve been spending a lot of time working on other things, like raiding in Firelands! During this time, I’ve also taken a while to rethink some of the decisions I made about the structure of my log parser, especially the data [...]
Opinions on “Vengeance of the Void”
Wowhead News is running a leak tonight of a supposed internal summary document of a new WoW expansion covering levels 86-90. MMO-Champion has just released a statement debunking the rumor, and I’m inclined to believe them, but having spent a tad over an hour compiling my thoughts on the concept, I think it’s sound to [...]