This document discusses strategies for optimizing access to large "master data" files in PHP applications. It describes converting master data files from PHP arrays to tab-separated value (TSV) files to reduce loading time. Benchmark tests show the TSV format reduces file size by over 50% and loading time from 70 milliseconds to 7 milliseconds without OPcache. Accessing rows as arrays by splitting
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