Load small datasets in-memory instead of using memory map
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Currently all datasets are loaded using memory mapping by default in `load_dataset`.
However this might not be necessary for small datasets. If a dataset is small enough, then it can be loaded in-memory and:
- its memory footprint would be small so it's ok
- in-memory computations/queries would be faster
- the caching on-disk would be disabled, making computations even faster (no I/O bound because of the disk)
- but running the same computation a second time would recompute everything since there would be no cached results on-disk. But this is probably fine since computations would be fast anyway + users should be able to provide a cache filename if needed.

Therefore, maybe the default behavior of `load_dataset` should be to load small datasets in-memory and big datasets using memory mapping.
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