in reply to storable: too slow retrieval of big file.

The only real way to speed up the load is to load less data at a time. You could go the route of breaking the files by the first letter (or paior of letters) as I suggested in Re: reading dictionary file -> morphological analyser. except this time using Storable.

That said, using Storable doesn't buy you much in performance for text data in a single level hash. The memory still has to be allocated and the hash built.

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