Howard Chu @ Symas on Nostr: Hacker News re-discovers how append-only Btrees work ...
Hacker News re-discovers how append-only Btrees work
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38805383That article was where #LMDB began, but we had to evolve beyond that and add explicit free space reclamation because otherwise disk use would have been insane.
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