About the only time I find myself using regular Wikipedia these days is if I need to know if someone died since August 2025 when this ZIM dump was created.

  • kali_fornication@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I have all of wikipedia in a single 156 GB text file. in my .zshrc i have fastWikiLookup() { cat ~/wikipedia.txt | grep "$@" }

    • Badabinski@kbin.earth
      1·
      2 months ago

      If you want a free and massive performance optimization, remove the cat:

      fastWikiLookup() { grep "$@" ~/wikipedia.txt }

      Reading and piping 156 GB of data to another process every time you want to look something up is a somewhat nontrivial action. Grep can directly read the file, which should result in a pretty damn good speed up.