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  "path": "/log/a_131_index_compression/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-13T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.marginalia.nu",
  "textContent": "The Marginalia Search index has recently seen some design tweaks to make it perform better, primarily the introduction of postings list compression. Last year, the index was partially re-implemented with SSDs in mind. This was largely a success, but left some lingering issues with tail latencies that sometimes weren’t what they needed to be. To ensure predictable execution times, the query execution is provided a timeout value, after which it will wrap up and return the best results it’s found.",
  "title": "Index Compression, Query Execution Improvements"
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