From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-03-17T02:19:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash load and GC

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> > Xiangrong Fang wrote:
<snip>

i don't know if this may apply to your program, but you may want to consider
reading the dictionary into a CDB database once (occasionally), which is
nothing more than an *extremely* fast on disk hash, so that it would be there
for the next program invocation.

this first read which creates the database might not be as fast, but you might
be suprised at just how fast it is.

cdb

  http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html

ruby cdb

  http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=cdb


-a

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