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how on earth do you index so much on consumer hardware? my frontend developer mind is blown.

• foxfluff 5y ago
  Wait till you learn that modern CPUs run billions of cycles per second. With multiple cores in parallel! And they can reach transfer rates of tens of gigabytes per second to RAM, or around a terabyte per second into L3.
  • ThalesX 5y ago
    And then you add a single HTTP request and everything tones down to the speed of the web. Or I/O. Or DB call.
    • goodpoint 5y ago
      More like: you add some javascript library and now the browser needs 5 seconds to run 10 MB of javascript.
    • knuthsat 5y ago
      You can still support millions of these requests per second if you just bake all of the dependencies directly in a small OS running on your fastest raspberry pi.
• paxys 5y ago
  Consumer hardware today is simply what was cutting-edge and crazy expensive 5 years ago.