Nov 23, 2022
I just sped up my note-taking app by.. reading more from disk.

:exploding_head:

A constant trickle of disk reads replaces an unbounded amount of stuff hanging around in memory.

This is a data-oriented solution in the footsteps of Mike Acton. I'm not removing fields from structs or switching to SoAs, but I am trying now to manage my caches.

GC is missold as "automatic memory management". All memory management is manual (you have to be careful about nulling references out); GC just simplifies freeing memory.

This post is part of my Freewheeling Apps Devlog.

Comments gratefully appreciated. Please send them to me by any method of your choice and I'll include them here.

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