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inside the engine
| in memory | cache, buffer, dataset |
|---|---|
| to a file | pages and log records |
| structures | in-memory index or dict |
| traffic | client ↔ server bytes |
| system | other files, unlabelled |
| floating | not on disk yet |
| on the grid | a file, or bytes in one |
| height | how full it is |
| stacked | one value, more than one allocation — a key whose entry now carries a hashtable, or a sorted set carrying both a skiplist and a dict |
| outline | a run, not a selection |
| dashed outline | a diagram of a structure, not memory — an index tree, a plane of key entries. The blocks inside it are real; the volume is ours |
| grid | 2 units, one floor |
built by DeepSeek V4.1 in the VS Code harness
technical review & design direction by
@nikolaydubina
2026
warming shared buffers…