Like digging 'your own grave': The translators grappling with losing work to AI
Summary
A technical post benchmarks a Dart lexer and reveals IO bottlenecks due to syscall overhead; packaging files into tar.gz archives dramatically reduces IO, enabling faster total processing and offering insights for build systems and data pipelines. It also explains pub.dev’s tar.gz usage and draws broader lessons on IO, decompression, and architectural tradeoffs.