Before:

    _get_record() for 131072 addresses 0:00:19.744702
    _get_record() for 131072 addresses 0:00:19.088162
    _get_record() for 131072 addresses 0:00:19.362637
    _get_record() for 131072 addresses 0:00:19.874917

After:

    _get_record() for 131072 addresses 0:00:18.143153
    _get_record() for 131072 addresses 0:00:18.247334
    _get_record() for 131072 addresses 0:00:18.326092
    _get_record() for 131072 addresses 0:00:17.750563

correct order of country_codes3

This is already done when database is open without caching or mmap. The current implementation
leads to different behaviour when different flags are used.

except: catches all exceptions, including exceptions like unbound variables etc.
Instead specify only exceptions which can be thrown if database is corrupted
(array overflow, decode() failure). read() and seek() shouldn't throw an exception
if the file is open and accessible so these two exceptions seem to be enough.

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