A few small updates: The ACLs in tinyldap work, at least for the read case. I also added partial write support now. tinyldap can not only serve data from the read-only data structure, but also from a journal that is read in when the server process starts. Since the tinyldap model is to start one process per client, this works well, but I will add some code to check whether there's news in the journal during the run-time of the server processes, too.

I also added support for LDAP AddRequests, but no other writes yet. My blog software now writes to the journal directly, and it helped greatly. I initially wrote my blog to use LDAP, so I'd have a "customer zero" for tinyldap, and would be compelled to iron out kinks I found while using it. It worked in that it made me add the journaling code, but it also failed in that I now write to the journal directly instead of using the ldap modify requests and so on. Important lesson: using your own laziness to get things done does not always work.

A small update on gatling, too. I added a mode to have more than one process, and I expected it to speed up the cold cache case, because then more than one disk read request would be outstanding at a time, and the OS could use the I/O elevator to optimize the movement of the disk head. To my great surprise it turned out that that case did not get faster at all, but the hot cache case had a x2 speedup when using two cores. This is all on Linux, mind you, but the results are almost the same on other operating systems. See this page for details.

I have been drafted to do two talks at the CCC Camp. One will be about the dark side of C++ (why it sucks to audit C++ code) and the other one will be about what optimizations you should not do on your source code, because the compiler already does them for you, and it makes the code less readable.