Frontiers of Performance with Daniel Lemire

Did you ever meet somebody who seemed a little bit different than the rest of the world? Maybe they question things that others wouldn’t question or said things that others would never say.

Daniel is a world-renowned expert on software performance, and one of the most popular open source developers, if you measure by get up followers. Today, he’s gonna share his story. It involves time at a research lab, teaching students in a new way. It will also involve upending people’s assumptions about IO performance.  Elon Musk And Julia Roberts will come up a little bit more than you might expect.

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