Pipeline, good thoughts! But it is useless in the big picture. Random Access is about 20 times faster than SSD. Every schoolboy and schoolgirl knows that (well almost). I do not need to prove it to myself. I know it will be lightning fast compared to current way.
All keen and worthwhile ideas Rusty. However, I don't think it has been disclosed exactly what BiaB does internally when producing output.
So. do we know how much is from internal RAM and what is simultaneously being produced in the background from a drive?
The program is multi-threaded, but I guess you already know that.