There's a lot to be said for this approach. With the size of today's machines (say a TB of RAM, 16/32/or more cores, many TB of SSD) you can do a stunning amoun

There's a lot to be said for this approach. With the size of today's machines (say a TB of RAM, 16/32/or more cores, many TB of SSD) you can do a stunning amount of work with smart programming. For example, I've developed a tool to do some file processing that uses Go's excellent concurrency mechanisms to reach speeds of ~40-50k files/second on a moderate laptop.