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Thanks! It's on the low end of what systems in other domains like LMAX have done, but can make a difference for the payment systems that we worked on in coming up with the design, to go faster and reduce costs.

Ahead of performance, we are especially excited about TigerBeetle's safety fault models, where we think there's an opportunity to break new ground, with all the new storage fault research that's been coming out the past two or three years, especially from UW-Madison.

Zig has been fantastic, in particular for Direct I/O alignment and static allocation, and it's only getting better with things like the self-hosted compiler. Having done a bit of security work in the past, I really like Zig's unique approach to safety, for example checked arithmetic enabled by default in safe builds, all the explicitness around return values and exhaustive syscall error handling, and of course comptime. The speed and ease of the compiler itself and cross-compilation tooling is excellent and the readability of Zig is also remarkable.

Huge props to the Zig Software Foundation for what they are achieving as a fully open source community funded project.