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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Linear Search
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:03:01 +0300
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On 16-09-28 21:24 , Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 09/28/2016 10:23 AM, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>>
>> Sure there is: when you have to do the search, say, 1000 times per second...
>> because you are servicing 1000 net queries per second...
>
> But how many values are you keeping in memory?

All that will fit, if you aim at maximum performance. In-RAM databases 
are very common nowadays...

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