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by janemydarling 1040 days ago
OLAP/data analysis.

If I have a century’s worth of point-in-time data, and I want to quickly run various tests against it: data marshaling will kill my soul if I’m using an HDD or various incarnations of hot-cold disk schemes.

Granted, I’ll have to read it in 1TB “pages” since motherboard and RAM engineering haven’t gotten us very far.