Hacker News with Generative AI: Performance

Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5 (railsatscale.com)
Many Ruby applications allocate objects. What if we could make allocating objects six times faster? We can! Read on to learn more!

Ruby, Performance, Programming Languages, Optimization

227 points by tekknolagi 22 hours ago | 55 comments

Improving performance of rav1d video decoder (ohadravid.github.io)
Making the rav1d Video Decoder 1% Faster

Video Encoding, Optimization, Performance, Software, Open Source

275 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 96 comments

Oodle 2.9.14 and Intel 13th/14th gen CPUs (wordpress.com)
There’s a hardware problem affecting Intel 13th/14th gen CPUs, mostly desktop ones. This made the rounds through the press last year and has been on forums etc. for much longer than that. For months, we thought this was a rare bug in the decoder, but from stats in Epic’s crash reports for Fortnite (as well as stats for other Unreal Engine and Oodle licensees) it was fairly striking that this issue really seemed to affect only some CPUs.

Hardware, Software, Gaming, Bugs, Performance

14 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 1 comments

Direct TLS can speed up your connections (marc-bowes.com)
A few months ago, one of my Aurora DSQL teammates reported a curious finding.

Security, Networking, Performance

84 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 40 comments

Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5 (railsatscale.com)
Many Ruby applications allocate objects. What if we could make allocating objects six times faster? We can! Read on to learn more!

Ruby, Performance, Optimization

11 points by Ocha 1 day ago | 0 comments

JavaScript Ecosystem Performance (e18e.dev)
e18e (Ecosystem Performance) is an initiative to connect the folks and projects working to improve the performance of JS packages.

JavaScript, Performance, Web Development, Open Source

4 points by brianzelip 2 days ago | 0 comments

An Almost Pointless Exercise in GPU Optimization (speechmatics.com)
Not everyone is able to write funky fused operators to make ML models run faster on GPUs using clever quantisation tricks. However lots of developers work with algorithms that feel like they should be able to leverage the thousands of cores in a GPU to run faster than using the dozens of cores on a server CPU. To see what is possible and what is involved, I revisited the first problem I ever considered trying to accelerate with a GPU.

GPU Optimization, Machine Learning, Performance, Algorithms

5 points by atomlib 2 days ago | 0 comments

“ZLinq”, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET (medium.com)
I’ve released ZLinq v1 last month! By building on structs and generics, it achieves zero allocations. It includes extensions like LINQ to Span, LINQ to SIMD, LINQ to Tree (FileSystem, JSON, GameObject, etc.), a drop-in replacement Source Generator for arbitrary types, and support for multiple platforms including .NET Standard 2.0, Unity, and Godot. It has now exceeded 2000 GitHub stars.

.NET, Programming, Libraries, Performance, Open Source

267 points by cempaka 3 days ago | 88 comments

The Lost Decade of Small Data? (duckdb.org)
TL;DR: We benchmark DuckDB on a 2012 MacBook Pro to decide: did we lose a decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?

Data Analytics, Databases, Performance, Big Data, Cloud Computing

3 points by oli200110 3 days ago | 0 comments

LLM-D: Kubernetes-Native Distributed Inference (llm-d.ai)
llm-d is a Kubernetes-native high-performance distributed LLM inference framework - a well-lit path for anyone to serve at scale, with the fastest time-to-value and competitive performance per dollar for most models across most hardware accelerators.

Kubernetes, Inference, Distributed Systems, Performance

119 points by smarterclayton 3 days ago | 15 comments

Visual Studio Code: Text Buffer Reimplementation (2018) (visualstudio.com)
The Visual Studio Code 1.21 release includes a brand new text buffer implementation which is much more performant, both in terms of speed and memory usage.

Software, Programming, Performance, Text Editors

4 points by stefankuehnel 3 days ago | 0 comments

Real-Time Grass Simulation in the Browser – Over 1M Blades at 60 FPS (techredux.co)
FLOWINGGRASS FIELDS

Web Development, Computer Graphics, Simulation, Performance, JavaScript

5 points by handfuloflight 3 days ago | 0 comments

SDB Scans the Ruby Stack Without the GVL (github.com/yfractal)

Ruby, Programming, Performance

30 points by ksec 4 days ago | 8 comments

Monitoring Node.js: Key Metrics You Should Track (last9.io)
Understand which metrics matter in Node.js applications, why they’re important, and how to track them effectively in production.

Node.js, Monitoring, Performance, Metrics, Software Development

45 points by unripe_syntax 4 days ago | 2 comments

Making iText's table rendering faster (itextpdf.com)
Here at Apryse, we occasionally have some free time at the end of our iText development sprints where we're encouraged to use our initiative to "work on whatever" we fancy.

Software, Performance, Development, Open Source

32 points by whizzx 4 days ago | 5 comments

A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics? (duckdb.org)
TL;DR: We benchmark DuckDB on a 2012 MacBook Pro to decide: did we lose a decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?

Data Analytics, Distributed Systems, Benchmarks, Performance, Hardware

207 points by andreasha 4 days ago | 102 comments

Pglocks.org (pglocks.org)

Databases, PostgreSQL, Performance

80 points by hnasr 5 days ago | 12 comments

Community Stewardship of Faster CPython (python.org)

Python, Programming Languages, Open Source, Community, Performance

5 points by bratao 6 days ago | 0 comments

Pallene: A statically typed ahead-of-time compiled sister language to Lua, with (github.com/pallene-lang)
Pallene is a statically typed and ahead-of-time compiled sister language to Lua, with a focus on performance.

Programming Languages, Lua, Performance, Static Typing, Compilation

24 points by todsacerdoti 7 days ago | 3 comments

Comparing Parallel Functional Array Languages: Programming and Performance (arxiv.org)
Parallel functional array languages are an emerging class of programming languages that promise to combine low-effort parallel programming with good performance and performance portability.

Programming Languages, Parallel Computing, Performance, Functional Programming

89 points by vok 7 days ago | 23 comments

Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Delivers Best Performance on Linux over Windows 11 (phoronix.com)
Now having shown the very strong AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance for this "Strix Halo" SoC with Radeon 8060S iGPU for its integrated graphics, you may be wondering on the same hardware how this compares to Microsoft Windows 11.

Linux, AMD, Performance, Windows 11, Hardware

4 points by rbanffy 7 days ago | 0 comments

The fastest Postgres inserts (hatchet.run)
At Hatchet, we spent the past half year running hundreds of benchmarks against different Postgres configurations. We set out with a simple question: at what scale does Postgres break?

Database Optimization, Postgres, Performance, Benchmarking

59 points by abelanger 7 days ago | 25 comments

Repair Time Requirements to Prevent Data Resurrection in Cassandra & Scylla (msun.io)
Cassandra and ScyllaDB share well known issues with race conditions between repair and garbage collection processes that can cause deleted data to resurrect.

Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Data Management, Databases, Performance

15 points by mikesun 7 days ago | 0 comments

Linux Swap Table Code Shows the Potential for Performance Gains (phoronix.com)
With Swap Tables the hope is for lower memory use, higher performance, dynamic swap allocation and growth, greater extensibility, and other improvements over the existing swap code within the Linux kernel.

Linux, Operating Systems, Performance, Kernel

9 points by marcodiego 7 days ago | 1 comments

Comparing Parallel Functional Array Languages: Programming and Performance (arxiv.org)
Parallel functional array languages are an emerging class of programming languages that promise to combine low-effort parallel programming with good performance and performance portability.

Programming Languages, Parallel Programming, Performance, Functional Programming

12 points by matt_d 7 days ago | 0 comments

Lessons from Mixing Rust and Java: Fast, Safe, and Practical (medium.com)

Rust, Java, Programming Languages, Performance, Software Development

115 points by killme2008 8 days ago | 42 comments

ZJIT has been merged into Ruby (railsatscale.com)
Following Maxime’s presentation at RubyKaigi 2025, the Ruby developers meeting, and Matz-san’s approval, ZJIT has been merged into Ruby. Hurray! In this post, we will give a high-level overview of the project, which is very early in development.

Ruby, Programming Languages, Open Source, Software Development, Performance

50 points by tekknolagi 9 days ago | 6 comments

New high-quality hash measures 71GB/s on M4 (github.com/Nicoshev)
rapidhash is wyhash' official successor, with improved speed, quality and compatibility.

Hashing, Algorithms, Performance, Software, Github

147 points by nicoshev11 9 days ago | 52 comments

SPITBOL – high performance implementation of SNOBOL for x64 (github.com/spitbol)