No, I didn't. An fst is a compressed data structure, which means you use it in its compressed form without decompressing it first. If you ported the fst crate to C, it would use the same technique.

And in C, you have to design your data structures to be mmap friendly anyway. Same deal in Rust.

But this is moving the goal posts. This thread started with "you can't do this." But you can. And I have. Multiple times. And I showed you how.

It's very tedious to debate with someone who explicitly makes assumptions about something (like code) without having read it, and puts the burden of refuting those assumptions on you...