Re: Hash tables in UserRPL?


John H Meyers wrote:
But this would let the calculator do all the work
(plus have all the fun),
and we wouldn't burn as many calories, either :)

Heh! I started out thinking I wanted to avoid redoing some basic
Computer Science just to get my app prototyped. But then it turned out
to be quite a lot of fun doing just that! 8)

On a computer there would be no contest between the approaches as far
as speed went. Even with disk caching, I imagine the in-memory hash
table would have to be faster. (Depending on its size, of course.) But
on the 49g+ I'm not so sure. { HOME } is in RAM, isn't it? If both
approaches were using the same media for storage, then it would come
down to the efficiency of the UserRPL + file system on the one hand vs
UserRPL + BYTES et al. on the other.

[r->] [OFF]

Regards,[nl]Howard

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