> But is the code shitty? It looks like boring normal code to me. I'm not sure what point you're making here.

1. It should never be that stupidly slow

2. That should be obvious to anyone with a napkin and some math

3. Excessive allocations are highly unlikely to be the root cause of the slowness

4. Instead of debugging, they seemingly spent a lot of time putting it on Kubernetes, scaling it out to 25 instances and then finally rewriting a portion of it in Rust.

The whole thing smells of confusion and multiple issues being conflated together, with the rewrite in rust fixing these by virtue of deletion.

And if the root is was the GC, then some `--trace-gc` output in the post would be nice at the absolute minimum. Showing a for loop with a string split doesn't cut it.