4 items tagged “drichardhipp”
2021
The Untold Story of SQLite With Richard Hipp. This is a really interesting interview with SQLite creator D. Richard Hipp—it covers all sorts of aspects of the SQLite story I hadn’t heard before, from its inspiration by a software challenge on a battleship to the first income from clients such as AOL and Symbian to the formation of the SQLite Consortium (based on advice from Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker) and more. # 16th July 2021, 8:12 pm
Datasette 0.58: The annotated release notes
I released Datasette 0.58 last night, with new plugin hooks, Unix domain socket support, a major faceting performance fix and a few other improvements. Here are the annotated release notes.
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Pikchr. Interesting new project from SQLite creator D. Richard Hipp. Pikchr is a new mini language for describing visual diagrams, designed to be embedded in Markdown documentation. It’s already enabled for the SQLite forum. Implementation is a no-dependencies C library and output is SVG. # 21st October 2020, 4:02 pm
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 # 10th May 2018, 5:15 am