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		AaronFriel on Sept 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shaving 40% Off Google’s B-Tree Implementation wit... The article is about performance or CPU time, not code size. Per the first paragraph, "In this blog post I’m going to show how, using the generics, we got a 40% performance gain in an already well optimized package, the Google B-Tree implementation."

hedora on Sept 20, 2023 [–]

I’m reasonably sure that running it through godbolt or using a coverage tool would show the (reachable) part of the program is smaller.

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