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Subject: Re: Value of 2-bit tables

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:14:19 01/31/01

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On January 31, 2001 at 11:36:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>The idea seems pretty good for 3-4 piece files, and even for 5 piece files
>although the memory to hold them becomes prodigous.  But 6's are hopeless
>as todays machines are no better at probing a 1gb file than they are at
>probing a 1 terrabyte file.

It might be worthwhile to store them in a real database with hashed index.

Modern database systems will cache database requests very efficiently, and so I
think it might be doable.  The database model would be the hard part (finding a
representation which is still highly compact like the tablebase files)



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