Strings WAS: Question About Web Site Speed
- Posted by Ken Orr <orr_kenneth at yahoo.ca> Jul 14, 2005
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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.