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MECHLOVE Blueprint - 2/7. Storage (ZFS-style) and WAL (template-based logical with physical hints)
October 7, 2026 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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One important feature of our WAL is that (because our Data Storage is CoW, and our checkpoint pages are perfectly consistent) it seems that we do NOT need to undo during recovery
Filed under: On.System ArchitectureDesign decisions
Read moreRadical MVCC and Replay-Based Rebasing OCC (Re2OCC)
October 5, 2026 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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Write-sets published at the point of obtaining CSNs are immutable and represent THE db history. Everything else is just views over this history.
Filed under: On.System ArchitectureDesign decisions
Read moreMECHLOVE Blueprint - 1/7. General: Pretty Much Classical RDBMS at Heart, with Each and Every Component Rewritten
September 30, 2026 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
Detour
We interrupt our regular programming to bring you this special report.
Filed under: On.System ArchitectureDistributed systems
Read moreInfographics: Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles, Take 2
June 19, 2026 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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The cost of thread context switch, including cache invalidation, can reach up to 3 million CPU cycles
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RTTI can be quite expensive, with
dynamic_cast<>being up to 5x more expensive than a simple virtual function call
Filed under: On.ProgrammingOptimizations
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