Hmm yeah that concerns me. There's someone legitimately using non-numeric values.
I am going to make the change locally so I can evaluate it. On the bright side, the memory improvement should be larger if you switch to numeric IDs. I am comparing against a 32-byte Integer object, whereas your Strings would be significantly larger. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Otis Gospodnetic<[email protected]> wrote: > That 37.5% sounds very attractive and hopes of subsequent performance > improvements sound even better... > > Though I happen to use Strings (and not just with digits in them) for both > user and item IDs, so I'd have to come up with a way to convert both of those > to longs. No idea how at the moment, but I guess that's my problem and I > can't be selfish, so +1. > > Otis
