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I came to the comments after reading the article just to find the person suggesting mmap and upvote them :)

• neop1x 7y ago
  Exactly! Me too :D
  • lmilcin 7y ago
    It is quite saddening for me that so few developers try to take advantage of the tools available. It is really magical thing to be able to run just a single function and have your entire terabyte file suddenly present itself as addressable continuous memory space ripe for random access. Regular random access file I/O seems silly to me, like trying to work with the file through a key hole. Have you ever seen how ships are built inside a bottle? That's exactly the picture I have in my mind...