Re: Cisco LEAP

[johnadams <johnadams () apple com>]

On Saturday, November 1, 2003, at 08:58 PM, Rob Shein wrote:
> Regarding questions 1 and 2:
>
> I'm not hugely familiar with the problem that LEAP has, but looking at 
> this
> challenge from a logistical standpoint, I would say that you'd be far 
> better
> off with a database containing the dictionary than a flat file, for
> performance reasons.

Not that I've been following this discussion that closely, but since 
when do databases perform faster than
flat files on read?

If he was performing searches against data, sure, the database would be 
faster because it could take advantage of search algorithms, but even 
then data stored (sorted) in a binary-tree flat file would crush the 
database in terms of raw performance time because it wouldn't have deal 
with database overhead.

-john




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