And BTW, my app is back down to 3.4MB after removing those classes and adding the dictionary in as a text file! That issue is now solved -- now I just need to figure out how to go about this approach :) awesome, thanks.
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Miles <vardpeng...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK, it's gradually making sense, but i still have some questions. I started > trying to do something like this a while back -- storing it all in one file, > then loading it, but I think after that is where I went wrong. I created an > array out of the contents and used it searched it way. I then decided to > split it into separate files to make the searching faster. > > I am now trying to do what you are recommending, and I have the file loaded > with: > > NSString *filePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"dictionary" > ofType:@"txt"]; > NSData *myData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:filePath]; > > My questions are now about how to store the contents, because I don't think > a nsdata or converting it to an array is what I want. Googling with keywords > I've gathered from your emails have given me hints about using mmap, but > I've finding very little info on it or how to use it. Is that what I should > be trying to figure out? Searching "shared prefix matching" and similar > keywords aren't turning up much either, so i'm a little stuck. I'd > appreciate another boost or two if you wouldn't mind. > As usual, thanks a lot! > > > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Kyle Sluder <kyle.slu...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Miles <vardpeng...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > In the meantime if you have a good link handy about how to do this I >> would >> > appreciate it. >> >> If you put something in the Resources directory of the app bundle, you >> can use NSBundle's -pathForResource:ofType: and related methods to get >> their paths. Since you're working on iPhone, you need to be conscious >> of the tradeoffs of compressing resources on-disk (and taking the >> processor time to decompress them, either at startup or on load) >> versus leaving them uncompressed (and consequently consuming more disk >> space). Making them static arrays, however, is probably not a good >> idea. >> >> --Kyle Sluder >> > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
