Well actually I don't know exactly what the Op is trying to do and I think that Grandfather's questions are on point.

What the Op was describing is reminiscent of a telephony feature in the US called "dial by name". A US phone has letters in addition to the touch pad numbers. Number 2 has ABC, number 3 has DEF, etc. For example BrowserUk is: 276973785 assuming that I did that translation right! in this case 7 can mean R or S. Anyway the way that this works for the user is that he/she starts typing letters and the system figures out according to a set of heuristics what to say to the user, eg are you close enough that I should give you say 3 options or keep my mouth shut and let you keep dialing, or say something to get you to keep dialing, etc...

Anyway knowing what all of the entries in the directory are and being able to spend some CPU MIPs organizing that into an efficient data structure that the application can use is very helpful to say the least. More memory helps. This fixed vocabulary part will help a lot - minor additions can be done on the fly but this "rebuild every night" part will help a whole lot.

At this point, I don't know enough info to say "hey I recommend to do X". I'm just at the point of asking "why do you think that Z is a "requirement/limitation"".?

In reply to Re^3: fast disk db with bulk insert, fast read access, compact storage by Marshall
in thread fast disk db with bulk insert, fast read access, compact storage by iaw4

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