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diff --git a/content/projects/lolcat-c/index.rst b/content/projects/lolcat-c/index.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 858f6de..0000000 --- a/content/projects/lolcat-c/index.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,107 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "lolcat-c" -external_links: - - name: Sources - url: "https://git.jaseg.de/lolcat.git" - - name: Github - url: "https://github.com/jaseg/lolcat" - - name: Issues - url: "https://github.com/jaseg/lolcat/issues" -summary: > - lolcat-c is a small, high-performance re-implementation of the - `lolcat <https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat>`__ - rainbow cat utility. lolcat-c is meant as a lolcat that you can actually use in production. It is fast, not slowing - down whatever you pipe through it, and it robustly handles real-world terminal output including escape sequences. ---- - -What? -===== - -.. image:: LOLCat-Rainbow.jpg - -Screenshot -========== - -.. image:: screenshot.png - -.. image:: sl.gif - -Installation -============ - -Archlinux ---------- - -There's an `AUR package <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/c-lolcat>`__: - -.. code:: sh - - $ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/c-lolcat - $ cd c-lolcat - $ makepkg -csi - -Fedora ------- - -.. code:: sh - - $ dnf install lolcat - -Ubuntu (Snap) -------------- - -See `this awesome blog post by a kind person from the internet <https://blog.simos.info/how-to-make-a-snap-package-for-lolcat-with-snapcraft-on-ubuntu/>`__: - -.. code:: sh - - $ snap install lolcat-c - -Mac ---- - -Build loclcat with: - -.. code:: sh - - $ make lolcat - -...and put the resulting binary at a place of your choice. - -Others ------- - -.. code:: sh - - $ make && sudo make install - -Why? -==== - -This `lolcat` clone is an attempt to reduce the world's carbon dioxide emissions by optimizing inefficient code. It's ->10x as fast and <0.1% as large as the original one. - -.. code:: sh - - newton~/d/lolcat <3 dmesg>foo - newton~/d/lolcat <3 time upstream/bin/lolcat foo - 13.51user 1.34system 0:15.99elapsed 92%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 10864maxresident)k - 0inputs+0outputs (0major+1716minor)pagefaults 0swaps - newton~/d/lolcat <3 time ./lolcat foo - 0.02user 0.00system 0:00.09elapsed 34%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1936maxresident)k - 0inputs+0outputs (0major+117minor)pagefaults 0swaps - -Bonus comparison with `python-lolcat <https://github.com/tehmaze/lolcat/>`__: - -.. code:: sh - - newton~/d/lolcat <3 dmesg>foo - $ time python-lolcat foo - 12.27user 0.00system 0:12.29elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 11484maxresident)k - 0inputs+0outputs (0major+1627minor)pagefaults 0swaps - $ time c-lolcat foo - 0.29user 0.00system 0:00.30elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 468maxresident)k - 0inputs+0outputs (0major+21minor)pagefaults 0swaps - -(Read: `c-lolcat << python-lolcat << ruby-lolcat`) - - |