Hi!

Cool story but you messages take a broken links :(

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 01:05, NevB <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I came across this thread in the Erlang group and thought the Riak
> team might find it interesting.
>
> Please forgive me if its not relevant to Riak
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Neville
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Joel Reymont <[email protected]>
> Date: Oct 25, 12:56 am
> Subject: couchdb performace 10x: using NIF for file io
> To: Erlang Programming
>
>
> Simply switching to NIFs for file IO seems to have improved CouchDB
> write performance more than ten-fold.
>
> Compare the old graph
>
> http://graphs.mikeal.couchone.com/#/graph/62b286fbb7aa55a4b0c4cc913c0...
>
> to the new graph
>
> http://graphs.mikeal.couchone.com/#/graph/62b286fbb7aa55a4b0c4cc913c0...
>
> I was under the impression that the Erlang IO subsystem was highly
> optimized but there seems to be no limit to perfection.
>
> NIFs are a giant black hole that will subsume Erlang code as
> performance has to be improved. Start at the lowest level and keep
> moving up. All that will be left of Erlang in the end is 99.99999%
> uptime, fault tolerance and supervision... of optimized C code. It's
> swell and I'm all for it!
>
> Patch is here:
>
> http://github.com/wagerlabs/couchdb/commit/23527eb8165f81e63d47b230f3...
>
> ---http://twitter.com/wagerlabs
>
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