[rescue] Small servers (was Re: WTT: 1.5G of PC2700 for 1G of PC100)

[der Mouse]

> It's actually pretty easy to make serious algorithm mistakes.

One of my "favourite"s:

	for (x = 0; x < strlen(s); x ++)
		...

(when the string is not actually mutated inside the loop).  In a few
cases a really good compiler might be able to prove s is not mutated
and hoist the strlen, but in most cases I've seen the loop is too
complex (calls out to externally-compiled functions, just plain too
big, mutates the string but happens to never do so in ways that change
its strlen, whatever).

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