Defragmenting GLD

This article presents some recent bar list work and shines that spotlight even deeper into the darkness of the vault. Does anyone remember the old 'defrag disk' programs we had before solid-state-drives? The screens were beautiful to watch as they worked! Seeing the individual blocks of data move around gave a better idea of what our data was doing and showed a different side to the disk drive we only ever saw the outside of.

A typical defrag program - showing data allocations on a computer file system.
The software would remove blocks from one location and write them in another.
Some files did not move at all (and you could see which blocks stayed).

The mechanic shares some similarity with a gold vault, an analogy close enough that we can take advantage of - a specific fixed area filled with lots of small (identical) units which take up space and are easily moved around.