Thursday, 10th May 2018
The latest SQLite 3.8.7 alpha version is 50% faster than the 3.7.17 release from 16 months ago. That is to say, it does 50% more work using the same number of CPU cycles. [...] The 50% faster number above is not about better query plans. This is 50% faster at the low-level grunt work of moving bits on and off disk and search b-trees. We have achieved this by incorporating hundreds of micro-optimizations. Each micro-optimization might improve the performance by as little as 0.05%. If we get one that improves performance by 0.25%, that is considered a huge win. Each of these optimizations is unmeasurable on a real-world system (we have to use cachegrind to get repeatable run-times) but if you do enough of them, they add up.
— D. Richard Hipp # 5:15 am
The synthetic voice of synthetic intelligence should sound synthetic. Successful spoofing of any kind destroys trust. When trust is gone, what remains becomes vicious fast.
— Stewart Brand # 4:56 am