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Re: Generate unique ID for URL

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On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Richard <richardbp@gmail.com> wrote:
> So the use case - I'm storing webpages on disk and want a quick retrieval system based on URL.
> I can't store the files in a single directory because of OS limitations so have been using a sub folder structure.
> For example to store data at URL "abc": a/b/c/index.html
> This data is also viewed locally through a web app.
>
> If you can suggest a better approach I would welcome it.

The cost of a crypto hash on the URL will be completely dwarfed by the
cost of storing/retrieving on disk. You could probably do some
arithmetic and figure out exactly how many URLs (at an average length
of, say, 100 bytes) you can hash in the time of one disk seek.

ChrisA

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      Re: Generate unique ID for URL Richard Baron Penman <richardbp@gmail.com> - 2012-11-14 11:41 +1100
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    Re: Generate unique ID for URL Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-14 02:04 +0000
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