Skip the optimization that is not your bottleneck

popzxc explains a storage design using ordinary serialization after trying a more complex zero-copy approach. File-system costs were not dominant. Data is written after indexing, writes take a lock, and query transactions hold loaded data only for their lifetime.

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“Well, it's hard to give a concise overview, but in short -- I use `wincode` for serde (without zero-copy deserialization though; I've tried zero-copy”

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