Constant BRANCHING_FACTOR

pub const BRANCHING_FACTOR: usize = raw::BRANCHING_FACTOR; // 2usize

Branching factor of the file tree.

This sets how many files are in each level. When a level gets full, the BRANCHING_FACTOR files in that level are compacted to a single file in the upper level.

For most use cases, the default of 2 is likely to be the best choice. Higher values might help making writes faster thanks to having to compact less, but will make reads slower. This is unlikely to be a good tradeoff if reads are more common, since in practice reads are already likely slower.

Do not change this from the default of 2 unless you have donen benchmarks and are sure the non-default setting is better for your use case.

Supported values: 2 or higher.

Default: 2.