On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> James P. Roberts wrote:
>
> > I suppose it depends on the size of the records (and probably a bunch of stuff
> > like OS, disk type, CPU type, amount of free RAM, the phase of the moon,
> > etc.), but I am not looking for an exact answer, just a ball-park,
> > order-of-magnitude. 10? 100? 1000?
>
> Just did a small test with a script, and even with 5 entries, CDB is
> faster than lsearch ......
>
> But you know, never trust a statistic you didn't fake yourself, so don't
> trust in this one :)
The one I trust is the number I pulled out of the air some years ago,
which is "between 20 and 50".
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