Niall's Weblog

This weekend I have been concentrating on improving the performance of my BitTorrent implementation. I somewhat believe in the mantra “premature optimisation is the root of all evil”, or at least, I’m not too worried about making everything super fast the first time around. Asynchronous network programs are complicated enough to write that I expected [...]

I have been making very good progress with my BitTorrent implementation recently. However, I have felt the need to make it compile out of the box under systems other than OpenBSD. The first system I have ported to is Linux, specifically Ubuntu 7.10. In doing the port, I found some interesting differences between OpenBSD and [...]

I have been working, time permitting, on my BitTorrent implementation over the past couple of months. I’d like to note first of all that a fellow BitTorrent hacker, the maintainer of LibBt, Ryan Walklin, contacted me about some of the issues I was writing posts about. Unfortunately I don’t think I was of much help [...]