Richard Kennaway wrote:
> The Fat Controller <awdry@iom.com> wrote:
>> I think you have well and truly stuffed the Palm lobby there. Forget
>> about MP3, and email with jpeg. It cannot even handle plain text.
>
> The software it comes it can't handle plain text. I've just found
> Plucker (http://plkr.org/), which does.
>
> Still not as fast as I'd like (5 seconds to search a 300k file). I see
> the Tungsten E has a 126MHz OMAP311 processor. How does that compare
> with a processor of similar MHz in a Mac or PC? I've written a Mac text
> editor that would search a megabyte text file in an eyeblink, back in
> the days of sub-100 MHz machines, so it is possible.
You are thinking about a completely different architecture though, with much
more sophisticated algorithms which may be doing some pre-processing. If
you have a database too large to search, then you'd better transform it
into a properly structured entity. That is one of the less important
motives for the use of databases.
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