> my beefy gaming rig with a whopping 31.8 GB of memory So a rerun of the program should only need to load ~8GB if the filesystem caching is somewhat loop/scan

> my beefy gaming rig with a whopping 31.8 GB of memory So a rerun of the program should only need to load ~8GB if the filesystem caching is somewhat loop/scan resistant. My first thought was "probably the math is wrong", but looks like it adds up to something reasonable - especially as all numbers are rather vague / rounded (e.g. let it be 12s) and the number was just high, not absolute maximum.