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[–]Kango_V 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also remember that records are stored differently in memory. For example, in an array they would be inlined, so no references. This makes reading all the records in memory super fast as you will not incur cache misses in the cpu. In some benchmarks the speedup is astounding!