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by h2odragon 1700 days ago
Had a project once where 70% or so of the 8 month runtime was de/serialization. 800gb or so data wad and 16gb of ram; all messily multiply interlinked and not even the indexes would fit into ram. it sucked.

but the architecture that imposed meat we were surprisingly resilient to power outages.