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I think any rewrite is going to be orders of magnitude more efficient anyway. You've got the benefit of hindsight.
by fapjacks 10y ago
I think any rewrite is going to be orders of magnitude more efficient anyway. You've got the benefit of hindsight.
- bjt 10y agoBut it's not like he wrote RethinkDB and then wrote Postgres with the benefit of hindsight. When he says that the big change was the database and not his own code, I believe him.
- fapjacks 10y agoI believe him, too. I'm not trying to participate in any database war. I've only said that any rewrite is going to have the benefit of hindsight, and because of that, his results are going to reflect that to a degree.
- vacri 10y agoThe article talks about more than mere code efficency.
- fapjacks 10y agoI don't mean any more or less than what I said. Rewrites are going to have the benefit of hindsight.
- bluGill 10y agoHe outlines several places where he had to do something because postgreSQL doesn't do it, but he suspected before hand that RethinkDB didn't do that well.,,