zerozerocool

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   PaSh: Light-Touch Data-Parallel Shell Processing [pdf](nikos.vasilak.is)

   1 points by zerozerocool 4y ago|0 comments
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   by zerozerocool 7y ago

   It wouldn't be a hacker news kdb thread without exaggerated claims about kdb's exaggerated performance. When you say KDB is "amazingly slow" in real life, you're either talking about your own attempt at KDB, or make
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   by zerozerocool 7y ago

   To give you an idea, here are some benchmarks comparing Python (with pandas/numpy) vs k (aka q/kdb+). https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/data-analysis-example-python-... https://www.linkedin.com/p
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   by zerozerocool 7y ago

   Here are some actual benchmarks comparing Python (with pandas/numpy) vs k (aka q/kdb+). It seems k is orders of magnitude more performant - without applying any no brainer optimizations/indexing: https://www.linke
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   by zerozerocool 7y ago

   Last I was told - removing the avx hard requirement is on the roadmap. This Intel SDE emulator took care of issues I ran into on an older laptop running shakti release circa ~ September: https://software.intel.com/en-us&#x2F