On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> wrote:

> Long ago, I did write a stage that does a binary search in a disk
> file. I think I even combined that with my lookup-based cache to
> reduce the number of disk reads. I can dig between the copper pipes in
> the shed, if that helps ;-)

Could not resist... 13 years ago...  from what I can see, it was
supposed to be an appendix of my Lookup paper. Maybe I could not get
it to work properly, or maybe Melinda felt that it was just too
confusing. Boter very likely :-)  Enjoy.

I think I got all the GML tags changed into HTML. There's even a small
program to demonstrate how it works.
http://rvdheij.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/binary-search-stage/

Sir Rob the Plumber

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