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Memory is slow, Disk is fast €I Part 3

IT · 2026-10-24 05:45

The author compares an AVL tree with a disk-based array at a scale of two billion nodes, showing the disk approach uses only 264MiB of memory yet is faster overall, highlighting the limits of Big O simplification and the bandwidth advantages of NVMe.

Source: www.bitflux.ai


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