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[–] seang96@spgrn.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe it was a CSV file of every item in all of the shops (comma separated values) and it was being read and stored into memory single threaded so it was maxing out a single core on the CPU.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

JSON, and it had more to do with how they were checking string lengths. But yeah, the general story is that a random dude fixed massive problems with the text parsing.