Em 4/9/2013 13:02, Tim Ward escreveu:
Ah, yes, I did write one of those once - a 1980s spelling dictionary
for a word processor, where being able to encode an entire word in the
smallest possible number of five-bit codes was *much* more important
than being able to read the list backwards. (I think we ended up with
less than 3 bytes per word for an English dictionary?)
I'm slightly surprised that it's thought to matter with this century's
disk prices however.
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Tim Ward
AFAIK it's not about disk price, but to make it more dense, so more
index entries could fit in a single page, leading to fewer page reads
and so improving speed.
see you !
