in reply to Re^3: fast lookups in files
in thread fast lookups in files

First of all, thanks a lot (and for the others who replied too)

Can you afford 108 MB of ram?

Sure!

rewrite your file in binary, packing each KV pair using 'NS'.

Well, I'm not sure if I did it right:

perl -i.bak -lane 'print pack "NS",@F' dataset.txt

But when applying the binary search, I'm getting weird keys and values (i.e. keys out of range, etc...)

citromatik

Update:Also, the resulting binary file is 127Mb (132195175), not 108. Maybe the original file has errors (?). I will check

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Re^5: fast lookups in files
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 05, 2008 at 16:52 UTC

    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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Re^5: fast lookups in files
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 05, 2008 at 16:06 UTC