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Re: Reportingby Anonymous Monk |
on Apr 04, 2003 at 03:49 UTC ( [id://247957]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
According to the authors of Berkeley DB a BTree is usually better than hashing for large datasets because you get better locality of reference. Hashing is horrible on caches and virtually guarantees that you hit disk. With a BTree on most applications, most of the time it is in cache. So you don't seem to be totally wrong on that.
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