jb55 on nostr

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working on an embedded database custom-built for nostr. think an embeddable strfry. It will probably be the fastest special-purpose database on the planet once it’s done.

I’ve built a custom in-memory note representation with O(1) and zero-copy access so that you can memory-map the data from inside lmdb directly into your data types without needing to serialize anything in and out.

if that didn’t make sense, the TLDR: shit is about to get real fast.

https://github.com/damus-io/nostrdb

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I feel like you wrote TLDR for me and I appreciate you.

The Callnote · 135w

Water Blower · 135w

Awesome thanks Will

Water Blower · 135w

Will you support in memory mode so that I can use it in browser?

HoloKat · 135w

Thanks for the Tldr; I needed it.

now how do we shard things across a cluster of pods... and still get a coherent subscription.

Pedro Vicente · 135w

“Fastest database on the planet” sound ambitious. Unrelated: I added CMake build and a Windows port for nostril couple months ago, submitted a pull request , but got no response (also adds the secp256k1 source, but that can be taken out) https://github.com/jb55/nostril/pull/30

I wish I understood this. How real, and how fast?

Vanessa · 135w

On the planet tho? Lol 🤔 I ask you what you did today and I get this? Lol

Mike Dilger ☑️ · 135w

> I've built a custom in-memory note representation... That is quite the trick, much easier to code in C than in rust. I love this idea. This will be faster than anything I code for some time. I'm serializing/deserializing and even though I'm using a fast library (speedy) it still requires an allo...

Vanessa · 135w

Who wants a video of Will trying to explain what he spent all day working on to me (normie)? Lol.

marventus · 135w

Keith Mukai · 135w

You know shit gettin' real when "big O" notation comes out.

Is this something all relays will use by default or what is the intended use case(s)?

Zachary Sunforge · 135w

How'd you decide to use C for this and Rust for shatter?

Mr. Ed, The Talking Horse Trader · 134w

The old-timers have been doing this for a long time. Every generation thinks they are such geniuses by reinventing the wheel that’s a previous generation already did.