last stable version at https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2022-July/102291.html

next step might be to change flushing so the index can be accumulated during writes or mini flushes, so as to be able to limit the total size of an index per flush if needed, without issue.

probably important to optimize away the approach of reiterating all leaves every flush. would greatly limit write speed on older stores, and be much harder to comprehend when it is old.