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WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups

53 pointsby saisrirampuryesterday at 11:32 PM4 commentsview on HN

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nasretdinovtoday at 7:05 AM

I must say I'm quite pleased to see how well Go version works. It does only use 1.5x the CPU and (predictably) much more RAM/VRAM, but not a crazy amount either (the expected increase is 2x).

Of course you can write a more optimal version in C / C++ / Zig / Rust, but at the same time Go is much easier to write and you don't pay for the convenience with an absurd performance loss like in Python or PHP

caffeinated_metoday at 4:07 AM

Do you have any benchmarks with a mix of long open transactions and short ones? I've struggled a lot with WAL-E in the past there, and am curious if that changes here.

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