The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions
March 2024
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I saw the One Billion Row Challenge a couple of weeks ago, and it thoroughly nerd-sniped me, so I went to Go solve it.
I’m late to the party, as the original competition was in January. It was also in Java. I’m not particularly interested in Java, but I’ve been interested in optimising Go code for a while.
This challenge was particularly simple: process a text file of weather station names and temperatures, and for each w...
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