[V4RB2] VText search speed

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 4/26/05 3:33 PM, "Olivier" <vidal_olivier at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Le 26 avr. 05, à 02:25, Kem Tekinay a écrit :
> 
>> The uncompressed size of the database is 6.5 GB. Compressed with zip,
>> it is
>> 2.78 GB.
> 
> When Valentina will allow to use UTF8 as a replacement of the UTF16,
> your application should be much faster!

Not much. Maximum 2 times.
Because size of files can be 2 times less.

But PLUS overhead on encoding conversions.

Also if you have many numeric fields, you not win.
Size the same.

> And on this example of DB, your DB will have maybe 3 Gb less..

Depend how many data are in text fields and how many in numeric.

In Kem db of course obvious present a lots of text.


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

[I feel the need: the need for speed]