Why? What? Since leaving Old Job I've been missing interesting database work. One paper that has been in the back of my mind is for a few years is Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware1 which details how Tableau's internal engine, HyPer, compiles SQL statements into LLVM IR. I also recently learned of the LLVM IR library Inkwell(s). Inkwell allows a mostly safe way to build LLVM IR through a typed Rust interface, JIT compile it, and execute it. Seems like these would go...