simonklee's comments

On: Uncached Buffered IO

[simonklee]

Some comments by the author: https://x.com/axboe/status/1854244924633252074

On: Postgres 17rc1 looks great with sysbench on a smal...

[simonklee]

There is a nice TLDR at the top of the post:

  - 17rc1 looks great - there are no big regressions and several big improvements
  - There might be small regressions (~2%) from Postgres 15 and 16 to 17 but this benchmark was not setup to diagnose that.

On: Labeled `Switch` in Zig

[simonklee]

I like tokenizers and parsers because they have a certain rhythm to them, and Zig's new labeled switch simplifies state transitions by allowing continue statements to target specific switch cases. Like computed-gotos in C.

- Zig issue: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8220 - Release notes: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/21257#issuecomment-23368...