Jacque, are you trying to keep the whole of SOWPODS in memory the whole time? That’s a 2.5MB file. It sounds to me like you are getting virtual memory thrashing.
If so, try breaking up the wordlist into 26 files for example - or even more by length as well as initial letter - kept as resources (rather than in fields) and only reading in the file required to check a word as needed (and emptying the variable loaded from file asap). My guess is a linear search on a small file is going to be faster than array indexing magic if memory swapping starts to occur. Neville _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
