Re: Keyword search is dragging

Wed, 16 Mar 2005 04:15:00 -0800

That makes sense, but I've already tried it. Slurping each file into an array of lines doesn't work in this case because of the size of the files. Each file can be 40 to 80 MB or even larger. That blows my computer's memory and results in a nasty error message.

-- Craig

Chris Wagner wrote: 
I don't think u should be slurping into a single variable.  I always slurp
into an array.  The thing to remember with large searches is that a pattern
match is an XOR operation and anything u can do to cut down on the number of
XOR's the better.  Since each keyword is on it's own line, presumably at the
beginning, iterating over each array element will be the fastest.  Right now
ur searching useless text *after* the position where a keyword could be.



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