On: The Fastest Redis Ever

[lucianbr]

Generic data structures in memory, grab bag of structures and algorithms... sounds more like a programming language or library than an external tool. C++ STL for example would fit these descriptions perfectly.

Doing everything is a recipe for bloat. In a database, in a distributed cache, in a programming language, in anything.

[bittermandel → lucianbr]

Don't think the argument is "everything", just the things that can be done within the protocol. There's really not much bloat being added considering the "limitations": https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/reference/protocol-spec

I think it wouldn't be unfair to compare it to Golang, which has in my opinion a quite unbloated stdlib which allows you do almost anything without external libraries!