Re: Cisco LEAP

From: johnadams (johnadams_at_apple.com)
Date: 11/03/03

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To: Rob Shein <shoten@starpower.net>

    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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