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Old 04-07-2009, 04:35 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
You can have either speed or decreased memory consumption, not both. I vote for speed since the size of a typical cached record is about 300 bytes on average (it of course depends on average title/author/publisher/tags lengths) which gives about 5MB of RAM for 20000 records.
I guess that's not too bad, considering that Firefox has about a 1GB working set.

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