# Zig libc rewrite lead to 12000x slowdown in SQLite **URL:** \ **Category:** Media\ **Created:** [November 4, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/zig-libc-rewrite-lead-to-12000x-slowdown-in-sqlite/18214 "2026-11-04T17:33:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kaeru](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/kaeru/32/3335_2.png) [@Kaeru](https://ziggit.dev/u/Kaeru)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/zig-libc-rewrite-lead-to-12000x-slowdown-in-sqlite/18214/1 "2026-11-04T17:33:01Z")
Was looking for a discussion on this article but hadn’t found one yet so creating one. > **[Shlemiel the Painter Is Back: How Zig’s libc Rewrite Made SQLite 12,000×...](https://dennisforbes.ca/blog/microblog/2026/10/the_accidental_12000x_sqlite_slowdown/)** > > Patterns reappear. Rust, sqlite, and Zig ---
**Author:** ![nonzeroq](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/nonzeroq/32/9106_2.png) [@nonzeroq](https://ziggit.dev/u/nonzeroq)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 5:50pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/zig-libc-rewrite-lead-to-12000x-slowdown-in-sqlite/18214/2 "2026-11-04T17:50:50Z")
There’s a PR to solve some of these issues that was filed recently: [https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pulls/37417](https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pulls/37417) ---
**Author:** ![gert](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/gert/32/8060_2.png) [@gert](https://ziggit.dev/u/gert)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 5:58pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/zig-libc-rewrite-lead-to-12000x-slowdown-in-sqlite/18214/3 "2026-11-04T17:58:14Z")
Reminds me of GTA 5’s infamous loading screen calling strlen over a 10MB dataset for every JSON value. > **[How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%](https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/)** > > GTA Online. Infamous for its slow loading times. Having picked up the game again to finish some of the newer heists I was shocked (/s) to discover that it still loads just as slow as the day it was re It sure would be nice if we had slices in C