On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Javier Guerra Giraldez <jav...@guerrag.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] > <cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote: >> It stores the IP address in integer form, meaning the lookups on large >> tables are much faster: > > are they? hashtables shouldn't be too sensitive to key size, as > long as the string size stays bounded... like on IP addresses (max 15 > chars)
OTOH, for really huge database tables, making the index 4 times smaller can be a significant difference on RAM-starved servers.... but to fill 1G can hold something like of 50million IP addresses in text form... -- Javier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
