At 09:24 -0200 02/01/2002, lpovoas wrote:
>I have implemented something like a 'database' in director, it has assigns
>authors with some articles.
>so, there is HUGE list of authors (1200 i believe) and a HUGE list o
>articles.
Others have suggested a DB engine; that is certainly not a bad idea!
However if that's out of the question for whatever reason, I'd
suggest brekaing the lists up into more logical hierarchy.
One good place to start would be an *alphabetical* listing, for instance.
Then, as suggested, save out the list after creating it. It won't
have to be reconstructed each time your app runs then, and you will
have to modify only relatively small segments of it as needed.
Long proplists can take quite some time to init, though -- you're right!
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