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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Large Look-up Table question ?
Date: 1999/06/07
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In article <375BB1C6.4E4B79A9@hotmail.com>,
  Nick Wilson <snow_moose@hotmail.com> wrote:
> reading all the data from the file as it's highly likely that the
actual
> entries of the matrix will change and so the easiest way to be able to
set
> them all is by having an external file rather than hardcoding them. It
means
> a longer initialisation time to read them into an array and if it's
too slow
> then I might have to go with a linked list of them. :)

We also have a problem here with initilization time reading several
large tables. The approach we *plan* on taking (supposedly it worked on
past projects) is to, in an offline mode, read in and parse the files
from their human readable format. Then we will dump the table's data to
another disk file (possibly using TableTypeName'Output). When we are
running online, we will just read the data files straight into the data
structure. That way we don't waste online time parsing human-readable
files.

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