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Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs

The Marginalia Search index has been partially rewritten to perform much better, using new data structures designed to make better use of modern hardware. This post will cover the new design, and will also touch upon some of the unexpected and unintuitive performance characteristics of NVMe SSDs when it comes to read…
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Aug 17, 2025Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs by ingve17230

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