On: I almost failed to search a 37 GB text file in und...

[coldtea]

>Sure, my point was if prepossessing is allowed then arguably so should having a hot cache.

Preprocessing is always an option: just needs some ahead of time effort.

A hot cache for a 37GB file is not always an option.

[Retric → coldtea]

Preprocessing isn’t an option if you’re given the file at the same time you get the list to check.

Aka are you building a service or grep.