Rayforce (github.com)

I thought "morsel-driven" was AI slop, but it turns out to be in common usage in the HPC world. So I learned something from this post!

Any relation to the smash hit SHMUP of the same name?

> Rayforce is a library you link, not a server you deploy. The C API is small enough to wrap from any language with an FFI.

I'm familiar with large-scale, commercial, client-server use cases for columnar analytics and graph traversal but what is the use case for an embedded server like this?

Is this competing with e.g. an embedded duckdb?

> Rayforce is a pure C17 zero-dependency embeddable engine where columnar analytics and graph traversals share a single operation DAG, pass through a multi-pass optimizer, and execute as fused morsel-driven bytecode. No malloc.

Sounds great. I hadn't seen an (explicitly) C17 project before. I wonder which features of it they use. I can only find very scant references in the depot (E.g.: https://github.com/RayforceDB/rayforce/blob/6c4b1eddad0ea728...).

Anyone know?