Yeah the access is pretty random. Some keys accessed more frequently than others. Having the data in a HashMap is pretty much exactly what I would want.
I tried default (de)serialization of the HashMap but that was much slower than reading the CSV. On 19 August 2010 18:59, DanH <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 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
