Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them You can take the same source code package that Ubuntu uses to build jq, compile it again, and realize 90% better performance. Setting I use jq for processing GeoJSON files and other open data offered in JSON format. Today I am working with a 500MB GeoJSON file that contains the Alameda County Assessor's parcel map. I want to run a query that prints the city for every parcel worth more than a threshold amount. The program is .features[] | select(.properties.TotalNetValue < 193000) | .properties.SitusCity This takes about 5 seconds with the file cached, on a Ryzen 9 9950X system. That seems a bit shabby and I am sure we can do better. Step 1: Just rebuild the package What happens if you grab the jq source code from Launchpad, then configure and rebuild it with no flags at all? Even that is about 2-4% faster than the Ubuntu binary package. We are using hyperfine to get repeatable results. The jq program is being constrained on log ... Read full article.