Benchmarking Hardwood 1.0 on a Threadripper 9980X

66 · Jack Vanlightly · June 30, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
Summary
This blog post by Jack Vanlightly discusses benchmarking the Hardwood Java library for reading Parquet files on a Threadripper 9980X, comparing its performance against existing benchmarks using an m7i.2xlarge instance. The author modifies the benchmarking code to test fixed decoder-thread counts, aiming to provide deeper insights into performance optimization.