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by curiouscoding 530 days ago
Assuming this is going to save someone 10ns per query in the end and I spent 150h on coding and writing this up, we only(?) need around 10^14 queries to make it worth it!

But yes, as new technologies stack up, we achieve exponential growth in throughput in the end, which usually enables new science :)