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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
> I can't imagine any real application in which I would keep that many
> values in memory. Usually they'd be in some sort of DB that would do
> the search for me. 

What if your program is a DB?  Its purpose is to do big searches...