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Jesus Cea wrote:
>> I'd focus on just the on
>> disk index of individual records so maybe somehow it can be made that
>> such that it just doesn't need to be read completely on start-up.
>
> If the index record were stored ordered, I guess you could do a binary
> search (with a cache) of the index directly on disk.

An elegant solution would be to "mmap" that file section in memory and
let the operating system to cache accesses to that :-).

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