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Comment by duke_of_vandals

3 hours ago

If you didn’t need to look at the code at all, why not write it in asm instead of Rust, and make it even faster?

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robbie-c  3 hours ago

Ha I did consider that! But 70x is plenty fast enough (we still have to query an actual database!) and the parser runs in a shared process on untrusted input, so it wasn't worth the security risk

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