jpetazzo

# this forces dpkg not to call sync() after package extraction and speeds up install
RUN echo "force-unsafe-io" > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/02apt-speedup
# we don't need and apt cache in a container
RUN echo "Acquire::http {No-Cache=True;};" > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/no-cache

KartikTalwar

The fastest remote directory rsync over ssh archival I can muster (40MB/s over 1gb NICs)

This creates an archive that does the following:

rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

• a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
• H: preserves hard-links
• A: preserves ACLs

Shilo

//
//  UIImage+Additions.h
//  Sparrow
//
//  Created by Shilo White on 10/16/11.
//  Copyright 2011 Shilocity Productions. All rights reserved.
//

#define COLOR_PART_RED(color)    (((color) >> 16) & 0xff)
#define COLOR_PART_GREEN(color)  (((color) >>  8) & 0xff)