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Comment by thesz

5 days ago

I am professional database developer. We do not do what you are thinking we are doing. ;)

I was thinking less about the DB data itself and more about temporary allocations that have to be made per-request. The same is true for most server software. Even if arenas are used to reduce the number of allocations you're still doing a lot more memory management than a typical cryptographic benchmark.