MapReduce with Parallel Make
Ted Gould’s post about transcoding music files using Make got me thinking about combining Make and RecordStream into a barebones MapReduce framework. As a demonstration, I wrote a partial solution to Tim Bray’s Wide Finder challenge, to calculate hit counts from web server logs.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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