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Indeed, this is the whole question: how much of *everyone’s* safety are we willing to trade to make the already-pretty-good, 99.999% case run a little faster. <br class="">
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<div class="">On Jan 12, 2024, at 11:52 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore <<a href="mailto:maurizio.cimadamore@oracle.com" class="">maurizio.cimadamore@oracle.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Heck,
looking at the results of the 1brc competition, your pure Java solution (no Unsafe, just FFM) ended up scoring quite high (3rd!) - at some point the question has to become: how much safety I'm willing to sacrifice to get an extra 1% ? I know that's a subjective
decision, of course, but it's one that, as a community, we need to gripple with (as that has deep repercussions on the rest of the ecosystem).</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">
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