On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Shaun Seckman (Firaxis) wrote: > > Currently, in my database I'm storing thousands of > strings that are formatted in such a way where they share similar > prefixes (i.e. TXT_KEY_FOO, TXT_KEY_BAR). Sadly, this format cannot > be > changed so I was wondering if it would be possible and perhaps > faster to > have SQLite perform reverse string comparisons for looking up specific > strings. Has anyone done this? Is it practical or worth doing? > These > lookups are performed very frequently so any amount of time that can > be > shaved off will be noticed.
The entire key will be read into memory regardless. The extra time spent in memcmp() bypassing a common prefix is likely to be unmeasurable. D. Richard Hipp d...@hwaci.com _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
