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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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Subject: Re: Patricia trie vs binary search.
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 11:17:01 -0700
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On Tue, 29 May 2012 09:55:02 -0700, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:

[snip]

>Are you arguing that a modern system can't handle that number of words? 

     No.  I simply stating that the real size of the problem is much
bigger.

>A modern desktop has more than enough memory to easily handle a quarter 
>*billion* words, which is a 100 times greater than your guessed upper limit.
>
>And that's *without* compression.

     Sure.  If that is all that it does.  My main (and older) desktop
box has 1.5 GB.  I have trouble with not enough memory at times.
Adding another app might break its back.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko