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Implementation-shootout reports

One job, built twice, measured. Each report puts two implementations of the same thing on the same hardware against the same work, and writes down what actually differed.

September 4, 2026

rookery: raw SQL vs Fluent

Two implementations of one persistence protocol against the same Postgres. They write identical rows. Raw is 158 lines and Fluent is 246, and the 88-line difference is mostly the schema said twice.

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