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bartimus on March 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: We Don’t Use Docker

Does hundreds of gigs introduce a general performance hit or could it still be further optimized using some smart indexing strategy?

z3t4 on March 16, 2021 [–]

Everything is fast if it fits in memory and caches.

yarcob on March 16, 2021 | | [–]

Unless it's accidentally quadratic. Then all the RAM in the world isn't going to help you.

Silhouette on March 16, 2021 | | [–]

And in 2021, almost everything* does.

*Obviously not really. But very very many things do, even doing useful jobs in production, as long as you have high enough specs.

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