It's been fascinating doing a custom variant for GFQL, the first OSS embeddable Cypher property graph query engine for CPU+GPU -

- accelerated launch of our new backends like polars, including a new lazy mode & planner, which are fundamentally new paths

- while we initially aimed for top GPU benchmark scores, we now also maintain top CPU scores too!

Long-term, more interesting to me is this opens rethinking what it means to be a query engine. Right now we are making it the fastest in general, especially on workloads from our own use, major industry benchmarks, and our users. At the same time, similar to jit and multistage computing, we're looking at new ahead-of-time optimization techniques users can do that are more interesting than plugging in custom indexes. Essentially, if our agents can do fast specializations, there should be safe hooks that we can expose to our user's agents too!