About
I created FastStats in the Spring of 2000 with some help from my friend Roger Chin because I was tired of the performance and the lag on servers that were running HalfStats - a Perl based log parser for Half-Life. It would cause lag on the servers for minutes at a time, while behind the scenes the server was thrashing its virtual memory. I liked the output of HalfStats, and so I went off and wrote my own parser in C paying close attention to performance and memory usage while keeping similar output.