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It's the Memory Latency, Stupid

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

A Pivot blog deep-dive explaining why 100% CPU utilization in databases often means the CPU is stalled on memory accesses, demonstrating how naive HashMap-based GROUP BY aggregations fail to exploit CPU caches and how much faster in-cache data processing can be.

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