Jerry writes:

> The other suggestion I would like to offer is it is actually better to
> load the file at the same time it is initially created, vs creating/saving
> the file and then loading it.

Absolutely, if not quite for the reason Jerry mentions:

> If it is built/loaded during the same
> open, NMKSAM will leave some ventilation space within its structures at
> certain iterations.

I'm not sure that it leaves ventilation holes.  The real reason it's
faster is that the initial creation is done before the file is
attached to the transaction manager (XM).  This means the XM overhead
is bypassed.  If you create the file and then fill it later, the
updates go through XM.

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