Most performance wins are under 5 lines of code — a 20% zstd fix case
DanielLockyer · x · 2026-10-06
Engineer Jonathan Grahl shares that they had accidentally created a new zstd context per frame during sandbox restores; reusing one context for the whole stream cut 20% off the decompression stage. Daniel Lockyer adds that 95% of his performance wins end up being under 5 lines of code.
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