A Deep Dive into German Strings(cedardb.com)

10 points by tosh 2 years ago | 3 comments

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems(cedardb.com)

144 points by jandrewrogers 8 months ago | 41 comments

Appending to an std:string character-by-character: how does the capacity grow?(lemire.me)

37 points by greghn 3 years ago | 38 comments

For processing strings, streams in C++ can be slow(lemire.me)

81 points by greghn 2 years ago | 73 comments

Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512(lemire.me)

110 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 87 comments

Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?(aphyr.com)

415 points by manicennui 2 years ago | 210 comments

Kyle Kingsbury (Aphyr) blog post explaining why the Jepsen distributed-systems testing tool is written in Clojure, citing concurrency support and JVM interop.