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4x perf on inserts... Those kinds of post make me both scared and depressed by the state of our industry. I feel like we're all hitting rocks to make fire in a
by bsaul 3y ago
4x perf on inserts... Those kinds of post make me both scared and depressed by the state of our industry. I feel like we're all hitting rocks to make fire in a cave.
- pizza234 3y ago"4x perf on inserts" on a microbenchmark - there's nothing to be depressed (or, conversely, enthusiastic) about. the microbenchmark has value (¹), but in a very specific context. if one wanted to observe performance increase for non-trivial usage pattern, they should use at least TPC-C, where I guess changes like this make a negligible difference, or none at all. ¹: https://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2023/05/updates-to-insert-benchmark.html https://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2023/05/updates-to-insert-be...
- pjc50 3y agoWe're picking up pennies on the sidewalk. Each individually is valuable, but there are just so many of them that every day we go home with the overwhelming majority of them go uncollected. And occasionally one is made of gold. (or the old story about throwing back starfish)
- euroderf 3y agoFWIW... if it takes you all of (say) two seconds to pick up a penny and put it in your pocket, that works out to 18$ an hour, tax-free. Not bad. Nor world-changing.
- bsaul 3y agoThe fact that we're still relying on a human brain having a perfect mental model of the tens of thousands of lines of code he wrote, interacting with the million ones other people wrote, is baffling. At this point i consider it a miracle things are still working about fine.