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		lukeh 63 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How... Small nitpick: malloc is not a system call.

to_ziegler 63 days ago | [–]

Good catch! We will fix this in the next version and change it to brk/sbrk or mmap

sfink 62 days ago | [–]

That jumped out at me too. It stood out amid the (excellent) performance model validation.

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