Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix

Just convert it to a binary data structure suitable for this purpose and use the old-fashioned bsearch. It's so simple that you wouldn't even need SQLite.

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kevincox 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It seems that you could just compile the data into the WASM blob. Then use a more optimized query engine than sqlite. This should be very fast to compile (most of the WASM is just a byte buffer, the code is just a few binary searches and some result encoding). The downside is that you need to recompile to update the repo, but I don't think that should be particularly expensive.

	▲	setheron 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's an interesting idea as well. Daniel wrote https://github.com/danielfullmer/nkv which also was a pretty fun experiment on how to improve data access within Nix. I love these cursed ideas.

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lsb 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If this much JSON could fit in a microcontroller’s memory (7.5MB in text), and it’s a performance issue, maybe it’s worth upgrading the JSON parser?

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ghthor 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The WASM extension me like. Would be great to get that into mainline.

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setheron 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

(author) If you have questions, happy to try and answer some.