Simon Willison’s Weblog

26th September 2023 - Link Blog

Batch size one billion: SQLite insert speedups, from the useful to the absurd (via) Useful, detailed review of ways to maximize the performance of inserting a billion integers into a SQLite database table.

Posted 26th September 2023 at 5:31 pm

Recent articles

One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 - 5th August 2026
New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging - 4th August 2026
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) - 31st July 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 26th September 2023.

performance 95 sqlite 481

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe