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Old 04-07-2009, 04:31 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
Of course, I am not sure I want 20k book records cached in memory. I prefer a smaller memory footprint.

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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.
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