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by Normal_gaussian 3494 days ago
576 hours -> 12 minutes (2880)

Admittedly the code I was moving away from was hilariously bad. Threaded custom build of PHP bad. Then again I haven't tried to optimise the code I wrote at all

You are absolutely right about fast code becoming a database, this is simply down to the query planner - it can try and do the least possible work for the data you actually have.