Apropos of...

Checking - there’s nothing faster than a binary search is there unless you are also worried about insert time which means back trees right? Ie a slow indexing process that creates a simple ordered list for fast binary search is the most efficient for reads, but not inserts (as you have to re-sort the file each time)?

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Binary search is fast for reads, but slow for inserts. Balanced trees may be better for inserts.