It works!! Thanks a lot Simon!
Gaurav On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote: > > On 24 Nov 2011, at 5:10pm, Jay A. Kreibich wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:08:12AM +0000, Simon Slavin scratched on the > wall: > > > >> It is faster to search integers than it is to search real numbers. > > > > Why? Both types are a string of 64 bits. Both types use the same > > integer-based logic for the =, <, and > operations. > > > > The only real difference is that integers are stored in a compressed > > format. While that means they have a higher CPU cost to decode, the > > smaller size likely makes up for the encoding overhead with improved > > I/O times. I'm not sure there is a strong practical win, however-- > > especially if the data is in cache, or doesn't span several pages. > > Hmm. I really should check this out with SQLite. It is generally true in > computing. It may not be true given how SQLite uses different numbers of > bytes to store different sized integers. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- Gaurav Vyas Graduate Research Assistant, Transportation Engineering University of Texas at Austin _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
