[flexcoders] Re: Filtering Best Practices Question

2007-05-17 Thread Nate Pearson
The server I am running on is a 900mhz machine while the desktops at work are 3.0 Pentium 4s. I figured client side would be quicker. I am filtering off on a string. I there wasn't a nice computer sciencey way to do it I was going to use pointers to jump around in the sorted list. Any one

[flexcoders] Re: Filtering Best Practices Question

2007-05-17 Thread Doug Lowder
If your list is already sorted, the performance of a binary search is pretty hard to beat. It'd probably still be a good choice even if you have to perform the sort first. You could also check out an associative array or dictionary, but I don't know how well that will perform with thousands