One Billion Row Challenge in Zig
05 May 2024 , tagged: one billion row challenge, zig, SIMD, performance
I finally got around to looking into The One Billion Row Challenge. If you’re unfamiliar, it’s a challenge to how fast a program can read and process one billion rows. It’s fascinating because it’s all about raw performance including algorithms, CPU instructions, and profiling and benchmarking. All things I enjoy dabbling with. So one Saturday evening I started reading up on the challenge. The first thing that struck me was the top entries’ time: 1.