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Code review turned a 3x speedup into 8.9x (off-heap HdrHistogram in QuestDB)

calendar_today April 21, 2026 person domain questdb

A community PR ports HdrHistogram off-heap for QuestDB’s approx_percentile(): fast in parallel but regressing single-threaded, until review reached 8.9x.

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