SQLite version 3.8.7 is now available on the SQLite website:
http://www.sqlite.org/
http://www.sqlite.org/download.html
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_8_7.html
SQLite version 3.8.7 is a regularly scheduled maintenance release. Upgrading
from all prior versions is recommended.
Most of the changes from the previous release have been micro-optimizations
designed to help SQLite run a little faster. Each individual optimization has
an unmeasurably small performance impact. But the improvements add up. Measured
on a well-defined workload (which the SQLite developers use as a proxy for a
typical application workload) using cachegrind on Linux and compiled with gcc
4.8.1 and -Os on x64 linux, the current release does over 20% more work for the
same number of CPU cycles compared to the previous release. Cachegrind is not a
real CPU, and the workload used for measurement is only a proxy. So your
performance may vary. We expect to see about half the measured and reported
improvement in real-world applications. 10% is less than 20% but it is still
pretty good, we think.
This release includes a new set of C-language interfaces that have unsigned
64-bit instead of signed 32-bit length parameters. The new APIs do not provide
any new capabilities. But they do make it easier to write applications that are
more resistant to integer overflow vulnerabilities.
This release also includes a new sorter that is able to use multiple threads to
help with large sort operations. (Sort operations are sometimes required to
implement ORDER BY and/or GROUP BY clauses and are almost always required for
CREATE INDEX.) The multi-threads sorter is turned off by default and must be
enabled using the "PRAGMA threads" SQL command. Note that the multi-threaded
sorter provides faster real-time performance for large sorts, but it also uses
more CPU cycles and more energy.
As always, please report any problems to the sqlite-us...@sqlite.org mailing
list or directly to me. Thanks
--
D. Richard Hipp
d...@sqlite.org
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