Agreed, I suspect it'd be most accurate to say the SQLite folks are minimizing their working set. I picked a couple of random performance commits out of their

Agreed, I suspect it'd be most accurate to say the SQLite folks are minimizing their working set. I picked a couple of random performance commits out of their code repo, and they look like they might keep 1 or 2 lines out of i-cache: https://sqlite.org/src/info/f48bd8f85d86fd93 https://sqlite.org/src/info/f48bd8f85d86fd93 https://sqlite.org/src/info/390717e68800af9b https://sqlite.org/src/info/390717e68800af9b