Strings WAS: Question About Web Site Speed

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Kat wrote:
> 
> 
> Perhaps the problem with using Eu as a web server database isn't with that 
> per se, it's more with loading a 100megabyte db in Eu (making it 400megs 
> for lack of a string type) each time someone does a search can quickly run 
> out of memory on any reasonable (/ly priced) server shell. And doing gets() 
> on a brute force search of a 100 meg file (RobC said his program does that!?) 
> takes too long. But what do i know, i play with a 14 gigabyte database and 
> want "goto" and string types added to Eu.
> 
> Kat
> 

Why whould 8 bit strings be better?  It works ok if you are working only in
English,
but it doesn't do a good job on non-western languages.

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