Go 1brc
My Go solutions to the One Billion Row Challenge
These are my progressively-faster solutions to the One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from a simple unoptimised version (r1.go) that takes 1 minute 45 seconds, to an optimised and parallelised version (r9.go) that takes 4 seconds. The project is written primarily in Go, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2024. Key topics include: 1brc, go.
The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s
These are my progressively-faster solutions to the One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from a simple unoptimised version (r1.go) that takes 1 minute 45 seconds, to an optimised and parallelised version (r9.go) that takes 4 seconds.
Read the article for a detailed write-up and results.
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