If you’re going to do something bizarre like this, then why store it as human-readable? If you have fixed-size fields as they do here, make your own serializati

If you’re going to do something bizarre like this, then why store it as human-readable? If you have fixed-size fields as they do here, make your own serialization format. You’re still doing byte-offset seeks, but it’ll be much faster. At the very least, use a monotonic key, so you can avoid having to periodically sort.