My Node.js is a bit Rusty

Re:My Node.js is a bit Rusty by BiteCode_dev on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:23AM (#37431814)

Agree. Espacially, a TSV file is very easy to process in chunks, you don't need a specialized parser like with JSON where most libs just loads the whole thing.

700kb/s smell super fishy.

I can parse that with one Python VM and a few MB of RAM way faster. And node has a JIT.

Besides, let's imagine it would be effectively the case that Python and Node are too slow for this, that would be the perfect case to delegate the task to infra instead of introducing a whole new language and ecosystem plus a rewrite. E.G: a perfect use case for DuckDB.

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Re:My Node.js is a bit Rusty by didntcheck on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:59AM (#37432026)

Agreed that there's something else going on here, but it's worth noting that (C)Python uses reference counting (with periodic cycle breaking), rather than tracing GC. Not sure if that actually affects throughput in this scenario though

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