Shlemiel the Painter Is Back: How Zig’s libc Rewrite Made SQLite Slower
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And we would have missed the community showing up, and having fun working together on a fix. I think this is acceptable in a pre-1.0 language.
Relevant issue: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/37402 Pending PR: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pulls/37417
That’s a lovely way of explaining quadratic time operations. I took a quick look at the linked zig code, and presumably it’s like this because it’s mapping c strings into nice safe zig arrays rather than treating them as unsafe streams of memory locations containing chars.
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