For what it's worth, Bitcask has a decent portion of its code as NIFs, and there are various other parts of the Riak codebase that use NIFs.
Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> Developer Advocate Basho Technologies, Inc. http://basho.com/ On Oct 25, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Richard Heycock wrote: > Excerpts from Kirill A. Korinskiy's message of 2010-10-25 08:28:37 +1100: >> Hi! >> >> Cool story but you messages take a broken links :( > > The links are valid from here: > > > http://groups.google.com/group/erlang-programming/browse_thread/thread/f667a9a87ada3e7d > > rgh > > >> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 01:05, NevB <neville.burn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I came across this thread in the Erlang group and thought the Riak >>> team might find it interesting. >>> >>> Please forgive me if its not relevant to Riak >>> >>> Kind Regards >>> >>> Neville >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Joel Reymont <joe...@gmail.com> >>> Date: Oct 25, 12:56 am >>> Subject: couchdb performace 10x: using NIF for file io >>> To: Erlang Programming >>> >>> >>> Simply switching to NIFs for file IO seems to have improved CouchDB >>> write performance more than ten-fold. >>> >>> Compare the old graph >>> >>> http://graphs.mikeal.couchone.com/#/graph/62b286fbb7aa55a4b0c4cc913c0... >>> >>> to the new graph >>> >>> http://graphs.mikeal.couchone.com/#/graph/62b286fbb7aa55a4b0c4cc913c0... >>> >>> I was under the impression that the Erlang IO subsystem was highly >>> optimized but there seems to be no limit to perfection. >>> >>> NIFs are a giant black hole that will subsume Erlang code as >>> performance has to be improved. Start at the lowest level and keep >>> moving up. All that will be left of Erlang in the end is 99.99999% >>> uptime, fault tolerance and supervision... of optimized C code. It's >>> swell and I'm all for it! >>> >>> Patch is here: >>> >>> http://github.com/wagerlabs/couchdb/commit/23527eb8165f81e63d47b230f3... >>> >>> ---http://twitter.com/wagerlabs >>> >>> ________________________________________________________________ >>> erlang-questions (at) erlang.org mailing list. >>> Seehttp://www.erlang.org/faq.html >>> To unsubscribe; mailto:erlang-questions-unsubscr...@erlang.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> riak-users mailing list >>> riak-users@lists.basho.com >>> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >>> >> > -- > Richard Heycock > > http://topikality.com > > +61 (0) 410 646 369 > [e]: r...@topikality.com > [im]: r...@topikality.com > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
