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We've spent the past year replacing the Vitess SQL evaluation engine with a virtual machine. We've seen huge performance improvement, better maintainability, and performance on-par with MySQL's original C++ evaluation engine. Vicent Martí explains how we did this in Go. pscale.link/interpreters

Mar 20, 2025, 4:09 PM

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