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Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp}

@curiouscoding.nl

Sorry I couldn't break the news.

22/8/25, 2:20 pm0 reposts11 likes

Giulio Ermanno Pibiri

@jermp.bsky.social

These are the commits that we love ❤️ the most productive ones are those that remove code :)

Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp}

@curiouscoding.nl

github.com/noamteyssier... Massive refactor of paraseq to remove a lot of duplication (and macros). From 3400 loc before, to 2300 loc after :)

github.com[WIP] inline reading into worker threads and split paired-end reading by RagnarGrootKoerkamp · Pull Request #39 · noamteyssier/paraseqThis has a few commits, mostly as proof-of-concept for now. Before, processing .fastq.gz files in deacon goes to ~500% CPU, while after, it goes to ~600% CPU (I only have 6 cores, but I expect over...

Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp}

@curiouscoding.nl

Now 🤞 that this doesn't impact perf in bad ways.

Bede Constantinides

Great to see parallelisation and a simpler API. Nice work.

@milot.bsky.social

One of my happiest commits was when I removed 10k lines of dead code from hhsuite

Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp}

@curiouscoding.nl

Yeah, dead code removal is also great! This code was definitely not dead though ;)

@ekimb.bsky.social

Skeet of the week award!

Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp}

@curiouscoding.nl

It was like: start refactoring; code broken for 2 days; spend some intimate time with rustc (including compiler bugs); add and remove lifetimes everywhere until success; finally prune lifetimes down to the minimum and come out with one massive commit :D