KinoSe...nvIndex(3pm)

💖 KinoSearch1::Store::RAMInvIndex — in-memory InvIndex 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's literally the cutest little storage class in the KinoSearch1 universe. sit down, we're doing indexes in RAM today 🧠✨

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✨ NAME ✨

KinoSearch1::Store::RAMInvIndex — an in-memory InvIndex. that's it, that's the name, she's giving exactly what she says on the tin 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

my $invindex = KinoSearch1::Store::RAMInvIndex->new(
    path   => '/path/to/invindex',
);

# or...
my $invindex = KinoSearch1::Store::RAMInvIndex->new;

see how there's two ways? one with a path, one just rawdogging it with no arguments at all. both valid, both iconic 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

RAMInvIndex is an entirely in-memory implementation of KinoSearch1::Store::InvIndex. like, every last bit of it lives in RAM, no disk, no filesystem, no nothing. and she serves two main purposes, which, slay:

• first — you can load an existing FSInvIndex into memory, and that can improve search-speed! which is amazing... if you have that kind of RAM to spare. 💀 and ngl, the FSInvIndex you load this way should be appropriately modest in size. no cap, we are not loading a whole internet into memory bestie.
• second — RAMInvIndex is lowkey so handy for testing and development. like that's her little side hustle and she's good at it. 🌈

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🎀 CONSTRUCTOR 🎀

💜 new

Create a RAMInvIndex object. periodt.

new takes one optional parameter, path.

• if path is supplied, KinoSearch1 will try to read an FSInvIndex at that location into memory 🧚
• if path is not supplied... she just exists. fresh. empty. full of potential. ✨

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 2005-2010 Marvin Humphrey 🫡

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📜 LICENSE, DISCLAIMER, BUGS, etc. 📜

See KinoSearch1 version 1.01. (yes, that's the whole thing, go look it up bestie, the legal girlies wrote it all out over there 📖)

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heads up 💖 this one's short but she's mighty. in-memory storage means FAST but also RAM HUNGRY — read the description again if you were about to load something huge. i'm just the messenger 🙈

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and that's a wrap, my love! this page is from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-20, and in the KinoSe...nvIndex(3pm) section of the manual — yes the header really is abbreviated like that, we don't make the rules, we just vibe with them 🌸💅✨