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Re:We’re happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a ... by fnord123 on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:36PM (#16996463)
Not only desktop and mobile, but it can be used as the storage format for larger scale distribued systems. For example it's the on disk format for FoundationDB.

>Beeing coded in a single C file makes it portable as hell.

It's not coded in a single C file...

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Re:We’re happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a ... by simonw on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:42PM (#16996522)
It kind of is... the SQLite "amalgamation" process takes all of SQLite's source code (across 100+ files) and concatenates it together into a single sqlite3.c file: https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html
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Re:We’re happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a ... by fnord123 on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:08PM (#16996779)
That's horrifying and interesting. Thanks for linking it!

I wonder if the alleged 5-10% performance gains are compared with usage of LTO.

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