Re: [Pan-users] Re: Big XML files... (was Re: Re: Better processing of very large groups?)

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-07-04 17:21, CSV4ME2 wrote:
> On Saturday 04 July 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 2009-07-04 13:57, Matej Cepl wrote:
[snip]
> > >                             I don't trust any email client which saves
> > > anything into SQLite ;-)
> > SQLite is "just" the obvious choice.  What happened to c-trieve, or
> > any of the other b+tree libraries?
>
> No it isn't:
> - nothing beats processing dedicated in-core data structures wrt to speed

Your CompSci professor wants to back, to fail you in Data Structures 
class...

A linear search thru a large in-memory array is *much* slower than 
an indexed search of an ODS (on-disk structure, like a b-tree or an 
inverted list).  Especially if the OS has buffered that ODS into core.

> Charles did an excellent job on the latest pan version,
> even the boneless group is loadable (with the 64 bits patch :-).

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