Originally Posted by Nuri
As far as I can see, there is only 60T of unreserved ranges left below 2^50. even if the speed-ups were much higher, I would still doubt the usefulness of splitting the dat file at this stage.
Moving to 20m-50m dat file would be considered when we finish up to 2^50 and start filling the holes (the ranges that were not sieved with 991-50m dat) though. I guess there is more than 2^49 size ranges (600T-700T?) untouched by 991-50m, right? Moving to a 30m size dat would probaly bring a speed increase of roughly 6-7%. On the other hand, these ranges were alerady sieved with x-20m dat, so what we might lose there is only limited to some forgotten factors (which is definitely only a handful probably) due to human error.