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Renato Pereira

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Renato Pereira's personal blog at r2p.dev covers programming and systems. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “One Billion Row Challenge in Golang – From 95s to 1.96s”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2024–2024first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked posts are about the One Billion Row Challenge, including a Go solution with optimizations. Commenters link them in discussion of the challenge and of how different languages approach it.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. One Billion Row Challenge in Golang – From 95s to 1.96s
    4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-03-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. adeptima · 2024-10-30Recommends
    please share! it's such great challenge to map each language internals. here's an idea how to write up https://r2p.dev/b/2024-03-18-1brc-go/

    Comment linking /b/2024-03-18-1brc-go/

    on “1BRC Coding Challenge: Nerd Sniping the Java Community”
  2. Submitted One Billion Row Challenge in Golang – From 95s to 1.96s as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. @ThePrimeTimeagen trigger ... BRazil mentioned ... New Go Billion Row Challenge w/ Great Optimizations | Prime Reacts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ1PDS7iRU8 - https://r2p.dev/b/2024-03-18-1brc-go/ Spoiler: SwissMap: A smaller, faster Golang Hash Table - https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-03-28-swiss-map/ - https://github.com/dolthub/swiss Want to see Paul Allen's implementation in Rust, Zig, Mojo ... and even…

    Comment linking /b/2024-03-18-1brc-go/

    on “1BRC Coding Challenge: Nerd Sniping the Java Community”
  4. Submitted One Billion Row Challenge in Golang – From 95s to 1.96s as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted One Billion Row Challenge in Golang – From 95s to 1.96s as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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