Re: NSDictionary
Re: NSDictionary
- Subject: Re: NSDictionary
- From: Carla Lewis <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:12:10 -0500
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What are you proposing to store in this very large dictionary?
Well, I've been playing around with the thought of database access, but
I'm not sure that's really necessary. (BTW, I tried OpenBase and it
works Ok.)
So, I'm evaluating my needs. I have a set of customer records,
(account, name, address, phone, ect...) of which the unique key would be
the account number. I also have another set of records, (workorder
issued, technician assigned, date and initiator). Finally, a third,
which contains a description of work performed.
I have about 7000 customer records. I have about 10000 workorder
records, and about 70000-100000 work performed records. Of course they
all tie together based on unique key values. Currently all this stuff
is in a FileMaker database.
Maybe it's out of line to consider using three dictionaries, maybe it's
not. I haven't looked to see what kind of search methods, if any, they
have, or if the entries are only accessible by the unique key. I have
no idea what the performance would be either.
Just curious...
On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 03:46 PM, Carla Lewis wrote:
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Good question. I don't think there's a hard limit. I've had
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NSMutableDictionaries with thousands of entries, but I've never tried
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pushing it till it broke.
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What are you proposing to store in this very large dictionary?
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-jcr
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John C. Randolph <email@hidden> (408) 974-8819
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Sr. Software Engineer, Cocoa Evangelism
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Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
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Carla Lewis
Etherion, Inc.