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I'm reading over the source with my coffee this morning. I'll pseudo-CR it if I see mistakes (commented on a typo already). Hope you don't mind! I'm interested to see how you are doing this because I'm playing with my own toy key-value store on the week-ends [1].

In [2], wondering why you make GOMAXPROCS=2*Cpu by default?

[1]: https://github.com/aybabtme/dskvs/blob/proto/

[2]: https://github.com/HouzuoGuo/tiedot/blob/master/src/loveonea...

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Thanks for noticing the typo, it's been fixed and will commit shortly.

Regarding point 2, I made a note here:

https://github.com/HouzuoGuo/tiedot/wiki/Embedded-Usage

I experiment with different GOMAXPROCS settings on three machines and noticed that 1CPU does not run tiedot to its full potential, 3CPU seems to be slower than 2*CPU.

With GOMAXPROCS=n*CPU, n is roughly the amount of pre-emptive (vs the built-in cooperative) multitasking that you want going on, with 1 being none. Handled by the OS, of course. Interesting that you noticed a speed up > 1.

I didn't think about that, I'll write that down in my checklist of things to do when testing/benchmarking my projects... like another dimension to take care of when testing. Aside from domain-range, good data, bad data, edge cases... and other parameters - now add to that concurrency scenarios.

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