I don't fully understand exactly what the problem is you are trying to optimize, however, in general if the user is in a browser, there is a HUGE pool of completely free CPU resources available by moving program logic into javascript on the page. For example, as the user is typing, you could be doing the splitting in real-time, and using XMLHttpRequests to query the data store little by little.
-Joshua On Sep 16, 2009, at 1:03 AM, Larkin2 wrote: > > My application is comprised of semicolon delimited phrases or sentence > fragments. When a user enters these phrases into a form textarea I > split the contents into a list and then check to see if each phrase > already exists as an entity in the datastore. This process is killing > me on cpu cycles, but I'm not sure there's any alternative. Has anyone > discovered techniques for efficiently searching through entity > properties? I've thought about using a listproperty, but I'm not sure > this will work. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
