Also, there were a couple of bugs in my binary chop as I warned there might be. Anyway, this is a corrected and faster version. Run against a file that contains 20e6 values (from 5 .. 100e6 in steps of 5) randomly picking values approx. half of which should be misses, it achieves ~20,000 lookups / second:

#! perl -slw use strict; use Math::Random::MT qw[ rand ]; use Benchmark::Timer; my $T = new Benchmark::Timer; open IN, '<:raw', '666269.bin' or die $!; my $data; sysread IN, $data, -s( '666269.bin' ) or die $!; close IN; sub lookup { my $target = pack 'N', shift; my( $left, $right ) = ( 0, ( length( $data ) ) / 6 ); while( $left < $right ) { my $mid = int( ( $left + $right ) / 2 ); my $key = substr $data, $mid * 6, 4; if( $key lt $target ) { $left = $mid +1; } elsif( $key gt $target ) { $right = $mid; } elsif( $key eq $target ) { my( $key, $val ) = unpack 'NS', substr $data, $mid * 6, 6; return $val; } } } my $found = 0; my $n = $ARGV[ 0 ] || 1000; my $label = "Lookup $n values"; $T->start( $label ); for ( 1 .. $n ) { $found++ if lookup( 5*int( rand 19e6 ) + int( rand 2 ) ); } $T->stop( $label ); $T->report; print "found: $found"; __END__ C:\test>666269 1e6 1 trial of Lookup 1e6 values (53.287s total) found: 500062

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In reply to Re^5: fast lookups in files by BrowserUk
in thread fast lookups in files by citromatik

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