back to article Facebook floats BOLT to jolt code out of bit bloat

Facebook has open sourced a binary optimization and layout tool, itself optimized into the acronym BOLT, in the hope it can make large applications faster. The compiled code for large applications – the sort Facebook runs – tend to be too big to cram into the instruction cache of a modern CPU, explains Maxim Panchenko, …

  1. Flakk
    Joke

    Yeah, we tried it. It actually made our programs run slower. BOLT kept pestering the processor for "Likes", and bombarded it with advertisements for vapor-chamber coolers and ED pills.

  2. RichardB

    Someone's already got that don't they?

    Neo4J - the graph database made famous after the Panama Papers.

    Isn't Bolt the Neo4J published network protocol?

    One might find it at a mysteriously named website - boltprotocol.org

  3. RobertsonCR7

    and we call this BoltScript!!

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