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The One Billion Row Challenge in CUDA: from 17 minutes to 17 seconds
This would be the code to beat. Ideally with only 8 cores but any number of cores is also very interesting.
https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/discussions/710
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One Billion Row Challenge in Golang - From 95s to 1.96s
Given that 1-billion-line-file is approximately 13GB, instead of providing a fixed database, the official repository offers a script to generate synthetic data with random readings. Just follow the instructions to create your own database.
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1BRC Merykitty's Magic SWAR: 8 Lines of Code Explained in 3k Words
Local disk I/O is no longer the bottleneck on modern systems: https://benhoyt.com/writings/io-is-no-longer-the-bottleneck/
In addition, the official 1BRC explicitly evaluated results on a RAM disk to avoid I/O speed entirely: https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc?tab=readme-ov-file#eva... "Programs are run from a RAM disk (i.o. the IO overhead for loading the file from disk is not relevant)"
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Processing One Billion Rows in PHP!
You may have heard of the "The One Billion Row Challenge" (1brc) and in case you don't, go checkout Gunnar Morlings's 1brc repo.
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The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions
Here’s a thread on results with duckdb, I don’t mean to discourage you taking a shot at all though: https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/discussions/39
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Ask HN: How can I learn about performance optimization?
If you are in “javaland” look at billion row challenge, you will learn a lot - https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc
- Lessons Learned from Doing the One Billion Row Challenge
- 1B Row Challenge Shows Java Can Process 1B Rows File in 2 Seconds
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From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story
Even manual vectorization is pain...writing ASM, really?
Rust has unstable portable SIMD and a few third-party crates, C++ has that as well, C# has stable portable SIMD and a very small BLAS-like library on top of it (hell it even exercises PackedSIMD when ran in a browser) and Java is getting stable Panama vectors some time in the future (though the question of codegen quality stands open given planned changes to unsafe API).
Go among these is uniquely disadvantaged. And if that's not enough, you may want to visit 1Brc's challenge discussions and see that Go struggles get anywhere close to 2s mark with both C# and C++ are blazing past it:
https://hotforknowledge.com/2024/01/13/1brc-in-dotnet-among-...
https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/discussions/67
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JEP Draft: Deprecate Memory-Access Methods in Sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal
In terms of performance: I realize that this is a somewhat "toy" issue, and it's a sample size of 1, but for the currently ongoing "One Billion Row Challenge"[1] (an ongoing Java performance competition related to parsing and aggregating a 13 GB file), all of the current top-performers are using Unsafe. More specifically, the use of Unsafe appears to have been the change for a few entries that allowed getting below the 3-second barrier in the test.
1. https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc
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The One Billion Row Challenge in CUDA: from 17 minutes to 17 seconds
There are some good ideas for this type of problem here: https://github.com/dannyvankooten/1brc
After you deal with parsing and hashes, basically you are IO limited so mmap helps. A reasonable guess is that even for the optimal CUDA implementation, because there is no compute to speak of other than a hashmap, the starting of kernels and transfer of data to the GPU would likely add a noticeable bottleneck and make the optimal CUDA code slower than this pure C code.
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The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions
c dominates every other language again...https://github.com/dannyvankooten/1brc#submitting
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The One Billion Row Challenge
You can run the bin/create-sample program from this C implementation here: https://github.com/dannyvankooten/1brc
It’s just the city names + averages from the official repository using a normal distribution to generate 1B random rows.
What are some alternatives?
yolov7-object-tracking - YOLOv7 Object Tracking Using PyTorch, OpenCV and Sort Tracking
nodejs - 1️⃣🐝🏎️ The One Billion Row Challenge with Node.js -- A fun exploration of how quickly 1B rows from a text file can be aggregated with different languages.
csvlens - Command line csv viewer
JDK - JDK main-line development https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk
1brc - 1BRC in .NET among fastest on Linux
pocketbase - Open Source realtime backend in 1 file
Apache Arrow - Apache Arrow is a multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing
java - Java bindings for TensorFlow
MindsDB - The platform for customizing AI from enterprise data
highway - Performance-portable, length-agnostic SIMD with runtime dispatch
Tribuo - Tribuo - A Java machine learning library