The rewrite uses deterministic block-based skip lists over B-trees, giving the index big rizz with mad speed gains.
Tweaking block sizes to ~128 KB tapped into NVMe SSDs’ fire read rates, boosting query perf big time.
Using io_uring for position reads was sus at first but now slaps, balancing throughput and latency.
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