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Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix

• ghthor 28d ago
  The WASM extension me like. Would be great to get that into mainline.
• kevincox 28d ago
  It seems that you could just compile the data into the WASM blob. Then use a more optimized query engine than sqlite. This should be very fast to compile (most of the WASM is just a byte buffer, the code is just a few binary searches and some result encoding). The downside is that you need to recompile to update the repo, but I don't think that should be particularly expensive.
  • setheron 28d ago
    That's an interesting idea as well. Daniel wrote https://github.com/danielfullmer/nkv https://github.com/danielfullmer/nkv which also was a pretty fun experiment on how to improve data access within Nix. I love these cursed ideas.
• lsb 28d ago
  If this much JSON could fit in a microcontroller’s memory (7.5MB in text), and it’s a performance issue, maybe it’s worth upgrading the JSON parser?
• setheron 28d ago
  (author) If you have questions, happy to try and answer some.
• Naru41 28d ago
  Just convert it to a binary data structure suitable for this purpose and use the old-fashioned bsearch. It's so simple that you wouldn't even need SQLite.