When you first learn to write software, you are building in a utopia. On your laptop, the database is always online. The network has zero latency. The third-party API always responds in exactly 12 milliseconds. You write a function, you hit run, and the data flows perfectly from point A to point B. In the industry, we call this the "Happy Path." It is the magical scenario in which every piece of t
Compiler နဲ့ Interpreter ဘာကွာလဲ Compiler နဲ့ Interpreter နှစ်ခုလုံးဟာ ကိုယ်ရေးထားတဲ့ High-level code (C#, Python, Java) တွေကို ကွန်ပျူတာနားလည်တဲ့ Machine code အဖြစ် ပြောင်းပေးတဲ့ "ဘာသာပြန်ဆရာ" တွေ ဖြစ်ကြပါတယ်။ ဒါပေမဲ့ သူတို့ ဘာသာပြန်ပုံချင်းကတော့ အခြေခံအားဖြင့် ကွာခြားပါတယ်။ ၁။ အလုပ်လုပ်ပုံ (Process) • Interpreter: ကုဒ်ကို တစ်ကြောင်းချင်းစီ ဖတ်ပါတယ်။ ပထမတစ်ကြောင်းကို ဖတ်တယ်၊ ဘာသာပြန်တယ်၊ ချက်ချင်
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I built a Vamana-based vector search engine in C++ called sembed-engine. Recently I made a pull request that sped up queries by 16x and builds by 9x. The algorithm stayed exactly the same. The recall stayed at 1.0. The number of visited nodes did not change. The speedup came from data layout. The original code stored vectors as separate objects pointed to by shared_ptr: struct Record { int64_t
The first time I implemented Vamana from the DiskANN paper, my approximate nearest neighbor index was slower than brute force. On tiny test fixtures, brute force took 0.27 ms per query. My Vamana implementation took 22.98 ms. That sounds absurd. ANN exists to skip work. The problem was not the algorithm. It was how I mapped the paper's abstractions to actual data structures. The DiskANN pseudocode
Hash tables feel like the default choice for membership tests. std::unordered_set promises average O(1) lookup, so we reach for it automatically. In performance-sensitive C++ code, that habit can cost you an order of magnitude. I ran into this while building a Vamana graph index for approximate nearest neighbor search. The algorithm needs to track visited nodes. Node ids are dense integers, and th