Maps Per Second

I should caveat this post with the often used phrase, ‘don’t try this at home kids’. When tinkering with the guts of any system and modifying the information being sent to and from a service by ‘hacking’ into the request pipeline of a message your opening up a whole can of performance and stability worms [...]

The other day I built a computer almost from scratch. I can admit it, I can nerd it with the best of them when pressed, ok I don’t even need to be pressed. I had a bunch of components lying around, a not too old processor, a bunch of fast RAM and a laptop hard [...]