Me too, at around the same time. Mine was an object storage backend for desktop applications. It had MFC-style object graph serialisation and, IIRC, simple inde

Me too, at around the same time. Mine was an object storage backend for desktop applications. It had MFC-style object graph serialisation and, IIRC, simple indexing. It also had similar performance issues to the ones you mention. I recall enjoying working on it. However primitive it looks now, Tools.h++ was ahead of its time back then. Just having a decent string class (with copy on write) was nice to have.