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Benchmarking Hardwood 1.0 on a Threadripper 9980X

The article presents benchmarks of Hardwood 1.0, a distributed log system, running on a Threadripper 9980X processor. It measures throughput and latency under various workloads, comparing performance across different configurations and hardware setups.

Background

- **Jack Vanlightly** is a software engineer who writes deep technical analyses of distributed databases and storage systems. His blog is widely followed in the database and systems-infrastructure community. - **Hardwood** is a new open-source, high-performance database or storage engine (likely built on a log-structured merge-tree / LSM architecture, a common design for write-intensive workloads), created by Vanlightly. The 1.0 release marks its first stable milestone. - **Threadripper 9980X** is AMD's top-end desktop/workstation CPU, released in 2025/2026. It features 96 cores / 192 threads and massive memory bandwidth, making it an extreme platform for benchmarking parallel, CPU-bound or I/O-bound systems. - **Why it matters:** Systems researchers and database engineers run benchmarks on high-core-count hardware to test how well a new engine scales and to stress-test concurrency, locking, and cache behavior under heavy load. Results on this CPU provide a stress test for Hardwood's design and can signal whether it is ready for production use in data-intensive applications.

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Benchmarking Hardwood 1.0 on a Threadripper 9980X

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