[openquery]

This is really interesting and a thorough write up. Thanks to the author for sharing their work.

Whenever I read about super low-level optimisation, my immediate feeling is that of gratitude to the author for spending so much time shaving off nanoseconds which the entire SE community gets to enjoy.

I wonder how much time humanity has collectively saved simply as a result of how all these optimisations stack up.

[curiouscoding]

Assuming this is going to save someone 10ns per query in the end and I spent 150h on coding and writing this up, we only(?) need around 10^14 queries to make it worth it!

But yes, as new technologies stack up, we achieve exponential growth in throughput in the end, which usually enables new science :)