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Redis-Forked Valkey 8.1 Released - Turns To AVX2 For Better Performance


It's been just over one year since the Linux Foundation and partners announced Valkey as a fork of Redis

It's been just over one year since the Linux Foundation and partners announced Valkey as a fork of Redis. The pull request adding the AVX2-optimized bitcount command shows somce nice speed-ups with larger values: There are also other performance improvements in Valkey 8.1 like using a new memory efficient hash table to store keys, TLS with I/O threads, and other optimizations.

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