[fnord123]

Not only desktop and mobile, but it can be used as the storage format for larger scale distribued systems. For example it's the on disk format for FoundationDB.

>Beeing coded in a single C file makes it portable as hell.

It's not coded in a single C file...

[simonw]

It kind of is... the SQLite "amalgamation" process takes all of SQLite's source code (across 100+ files) and concatenates it together into a single sqlite3.c file: https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html

[fnord123]

That's horrifying and interesting. Thanks for linking it!

I wonder if the alleged 5-10% performance gains are compared with usage of LTO.