On 6/19/00 2:14 PM, Pierre Sahores at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> To get a good speed in parsing a MC database of 25 000 records for 6.2
> Mo of datas, i store the datas in a texte file loaded
> by the preopenstack script at once, as two vars (datas - 4.2 Mo and
> index - 2 Mo) and than divide the datas var in 25 subvars. To search the
> records to parse to the web or to a metacard front-end window, i use,
> first, "repeat for each line in var index + get offset" - seems faster
> than the filter command for multi-string searches on big vars - in the
> index var and, second, parse the datas stored in the right lines of the
> 25 datas subvars.
If you find yourself doing a lot of benchmark comparisons of alternate
algorithms, you might find this lil' tool useful:
ftp://ftp.fourthworld.com/MetaCard/4W_MetaBench.mc.sit.hqx
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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