Ok, thanks for the input. I'll work on optimizing the code and look at the
indexes.
ryc wrote:
> Changing to C++ is not likely to give you a noticable speed difference
> because your bottleneck is not the code but the queries. With proper
> database design you should be able to acheive those results with one query,
> and it should be fast if given the right indexes.
>
> ryan
>
> > I am searching to speed up an operation I have, which works - it just
> > takes minutes to finish. The current script is written in pike (a C like
> > scripting language). I believe that most of the overhead is the multiple
> > queries. Would using C++ be significantly faster? (I'd have to learn
> > some C before I could do this, so, the speed increase needs to be worth
> > the effort).
> >
> > Let me explain the situation:
> >
> > Table 1 is defined as:
> > MM;varchar(4)
> > Title;varchar(48)
> > Archive;varchar(4)
> > record_num;int(8) unsigned zerofill
> >
> > I am given a list of Titles. With these Title's I need to search Table 1
> > for the Title and output as follows:
> >
> > Green Mile 10 35mm TRLR 6 16mm BCAM
> > Cast Away 4 35mm 20 BETA
> >
> > In the above example, Green Mile=Title 35mm=MM TRLR=Archive etc. So we
> > have 10 35mm TRLR of Green Mile.
> > Currently I am querying several times to get the result. This is slow
> > because the list could be 50 Titles.
> >
> > Thanks for any advance you can give on this.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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