Re: Best Way To Lookup From a Huge Table

FROM : Ben Trumbull
DATE : Sat Mar 15 02:39:42 2008

>Frankly, if it's just a table of 100,000 NSNumbers pointing to
>8-character strings, CoreData seems a little excessive to me.


:) The file system is excellent at something this straight forward.

>The table can live in RAM and it shouldn't cause any problem.


Well if we're really serious, one could just use a memory mapped file
where the user's input (after bounds checking) is just an index into
the VM space.  If the weather codes are variable length strings, then
the zip code index records the offset into the file after the end of
the zip code section.

More or less what Jens suggested.
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-Ben