With a couple of changes to my program, I ran it on the output of perldoc perltoot and got the following results: 

C:\test>208899-2 junk.dat

Of 10479 word-like things, 7803 where flagged as words and 2676 as not
10479 trials of _default (58.184s total), 5.552ms/trial

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Which if my ad-hoc conversion factor of *233/800 has any merit puts it at 1.61702ms/word which stands up pretty well given the that it has to re-open the file each time.

Not having used any of the *dbm varients, I was impressed by the efficiency and simplicity of use that your program demonstrated, and when I looked, found that dada's site has a Win32 port of GDBM which I am in the process of downloading now.

Thanks greatly for bringing this to my attention. There are many things for which I think I will find this extrememly useful.

Nah! Your thinking of Simon Templar, originally played by Roger Moore and later by Ian Ogilvy

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fast wordlist lookup for game by BrowserUk
in thread Fast wordlist lookup for game by jerrygarciuh

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