That's certainly an option, if the characters are from a limited charset so you can, eg, pack each char in 6 bits. Then you can save/ load an array of int. If you need to get the chars into Strings, though, some non-trivial work is involved, but you could, similar to my "dope vector" scheme, unpack them "on demand".
It would be nice to know how the strings need to be accessed -- are they accessed by ordinal number, searched, what? If one is accessed are all accessed, or is the access random, with some never being accessed and others accessed frequently? On Aug 19, 11:48 am, greg <[email protected]> wrote: > If all the strings are less than 5 chars, have you considered packing > them into 4-byte integers? > > On Aug 19, 11:01 am, Mark Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've got a map of about 500 entries. Strings are all very short (less > > than 5 chars). > > > Its read-only data I want to read once at app-startup. > > > What's the best way to store this so that loading this data is fast? > > > I've tried storing the data in a CSV in res/raw but this takes about > > 700ms to parse on my N1, so I'm hoping there's a faster way... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
