• seang96@spgrn.com
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    1 year ago

    I believe it was a CSV file of every item in all of the shops (comma separated values) and it was being read and stored into memory single threaded so it was maxing out a single core on the CPU.

    • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      JSON, and it had more to do with how they were checking string lengths. But yeah, the general story is that a random dude fixed massive problems with the text parsing.