Seems like the only point of comparison against a competitive k/q runtime is an MBP run? suggestive to be sure, but would be good to see some other machines, esp. an x86.

Seems wild that the much-lauded "reference engine" leaves ~2x perf improvements on the table.

I’d encourage running the master bench yourself! Super easy

https://github.com/l-labs/master-benchmark

Or on the database side of the house try the h2o.ai base that duckdb excels at

https://github.com/l-labs/db-benchmark/tree/main/l