From: Xiangrong Fang <xrfang@...>
Date: 2003-03-17T11:56:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash load and GC

Hi, Ahoward,

I am using Windows 2000. I think CDB is only available for Unix.

Thanks.
Shannon

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 02:19:19 +0900
ahoward <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> wrote:

> 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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