I used autohotkey for this kind of in memory mostly read string lookups and nosql type queries without sqlite. Autohotkey is way faster than Python. Maybe it's

I used autohotkey for this kind of in memory mostly read string lookups and nosql type queries without sqlite. Autohotkey is way faster than Python. Maybe it's the immutable strings slowing down python, but there was like a >10x performance difference. I even had a linux port of autohotkey at one time, but I think you can also just use wine if you are on linux.