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Expand Up @@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ could price an audit from this repository's own history instead of guessing.
## What it costs

**It is unindexed, and every query reads every file.** That works because an
entry is one per *audit*, not one per event. Today the whole record is **106
entries, 386 KB, averaging 3.7 KB each** — about 37 MB projected at ten
entry is one per *audit*, not one per event. Today the whole record is **108
entries, 402 KB, averaging 3.8 KB each** — about 38 MB projected at ten
thousand audits. Benchmarks, by contrast, are one per benchmark per commit per
platform, which is the assumption this design rests on, violated. If your facts
arrive per-event, this is the wrong shape and a real database is the right one.
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