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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

if they wrote good code yeah, evidently they didn't write good code if they're struggling to process 60k lines of a database lmao.

They must either be O(n^10) complexity or something retarded like that for this to be the case. I wouldn't put it past them.

Plus a lot of reads is nothing really, for basically all databases, unless you’re doing an unsmart thing with how you’re reading it (like scanning the whole database over and over). If you’re not processing the data, it’d be I/O bottlenecked.

again, i'm assuming they aren't very smart, since this is an issue in the first place.