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Refactor timeAgo to make it more performant #850

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@mxdvl mxdvl commented Oct 12, 2023

What are you changing?

Why?

  • internal changes that result in a ~25× speed up for dates under a week, which brings the execution from 1-2µs to 60-70ns.
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@mxdvl mxdvl force-pushed the mxdvl/timeAgo branch 2 times, most recently from 809ba7c to 7df1e47 Compare October 12, 2023 11:53
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Consider that yak shaved!
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internal changes that result in a 20× speed up,
which brings the execution from 1-2µs to 60-70ns
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To clarify yak shaving, I meant in a good way:

"An activity that allows one to overcome intermediate difficulties, which then allows one to solve a larger problem."

As in avoiding death of a thousand papercuts on performance.

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