Comment Comment by shiny https://lemire.me/blog/2020/12/01/interview-by-adam-gordon-b...Daniel Lemire details how he was able to massively speed up json parsing by thinking from first principles.TLDL: he removed all abstractions and coded directly for the hardware.Great interview. Makes me want to learn assembly programming (perhaps ARM64 since that seems to be the latest hotness thanks to the M1).I also enjoyed this interview on the upcoming JIT/AOT for the BEAM: https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/017-jit-compiler... parent shiny 5 years ago
Daniel Lemire details how he was able to massively speed up json parsing by thinking from first principles.
TLDL: he removed all abstractions and coded directly for the hardware.
Great interview. Makes me want to learn assembly programming (perhaps ARM64 since that seems to be the latest hotness thanks to the M1).
I also enjoyed this interview on the upcoming JIT/AOT for the BEAM: https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/017-jit-compiler...