Okay, I've got the dictionary loaded, but HasKey is always
returning false. Any Ideas?
BinCount of the dictionary is 65521, Count is 177741, loading it
takes 2 seconds on a dual 1 GHz G4, and HasKey returns an answer
virtually instantaneously.
Your BinCount is too small. Set it to 3*177741. If that fixes
your problem, then you have found a problem with the Dictionary
implementation.
No, that didn't fix it.
I did find something quite interesting, but I don't know if it's
related. I made a simple loop that gets a few keys from the
dictionary. The resulting string is:
Indexes 700 to 710
a c c e s s i b l e
a c c e s s i b l y
a c c e s s i n g
a c c e s s i o n
a c c e s s i o n e d
a c c e s s i o n i n g
a c c e s s i o n s
a c c e s s o r i e s
a c c e s s o r i s e
a c c e s s o r i s e d
a c c e s s o r i s e s
The first line is hard coded, and the subsequent lines are the result
of a for-next loop. Notice the spaces between the letters. What's
interesting is that when I copy the same string variable to an
editfield using code at runtime, the letters appear as expected - no
spaces. If I select all of the text in the editfield, copy it to the
clipboard, and paste it in Mail, I get exactly the same result. The
first line has no spaces between letters, and the rest do. I tried
copying and pasting one of the above words into my input box, but
HasKey still returned false.
Encoding problem, maybe? The source text file is encoded UTF-16.
You might also consider an alternative implementation. Load the
word list into an array, sort it, and write the result out to a
file. Then you can load the sorted list at runtime and use binary
search to look up a word. This will require either 18 or 19 string
comparisons for each lookup. It may be slower than a Dictionary on
average, but it's guaranteed to be faster in the worst case, and it
uses less memory.
Do you mean to handle it just like a database handles itself? I
understand that concept, but how do you do it?
Andrew Keller_______________________________________________
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